It's one of those books that inspires me to go on an adventure.

Nearly everyone I talked to had some gruesome story involving a guileless acquaintance who had gone off hiking the trail with high hopes and new boots and come stumbling back two days later with a bobcat attached to his head or dripping blood from an armless sleeve and whispering in a hoarse voice “Bear!” before sinking into a troubled unconsciousness


On Bear Attacks: Their Causes and Avoidance by Canadian academic Stephen Herrero “If this is not the last word on the subject, then I really, really, really, do not wish to hear the last word”.

All the books will tell you that if a grizzly comes for you, on no account should you run. This is the sort of advice you get from someone who is sitting at a keyboard when he gives it. Take it from me, if you are in an open space with no weapons and a grizzly comes for you, run. You may as well. If nothing else, it will give you something to do with the last seven seconds of your life

“In many places in America now, it is not possible to be a pedestrian even if you wanted to be”

( This is quite true, unfortunately. )