Chris Pontius Quotes

Over the course of many encounters and many years, I have successfully developed a standard operating procedure for dealing with big, nasty monsters. Run away.

Black bears rarely attack. But here's the thing. Sometimes they do. All bears are agile, cunning and immensely strong, and they are always hungry. If they want to kill you and eat you, they can, and pretty much whenever they want. That doesn't happen often, but - and here is the absolutely salient point - once would be enough.

Bears are simultaneously so graceful and so strong. Bears know who they are, but they often don’t know who you are, which is why they kill you.

I was much more upset by the situation with Jacob than by the possibility of being eaten by a bear.

Cut off a wolf's head and it still has the power to bite.

Our need to knock celebrities is...Twisted: it's deep in the mid-brain below the survival instinct. That lust to see a downfall. It's animalistic.

Wolves ate even mighty hunters, for there was no honor or code among predators, and everyone's guts steam the same way when torn open on a cold night.

No woman wants an abortion as she wants an ice cream cone or a Porsche. She wants an abortion as an animal caught in a trap wants to gnaw off its own leg.

There are some dogs which, when you meet them, remind you that, despite thousands of years of manmade evolution, every dog is still only two meals away from being a wolf.

Do not despair of life. You have no doubt force enough to overcome your obstacles. Think of the fox prowling through wood and field in a winter night for something to satisfy his hunger. Notwithstanding cold and the hounds and traps, his race survives. I do not believe any of them ever committed suicide.

For myself, I always assume that a lion is ferocious, and so I am never caught off my guard.

Love in an animal sense is an illness, but a necessity which one has to overcome.

If the lion knew his own strength, hard were it for any man to rule him.

Never completely encircle your enemy. Leave him some escape, for he will fight even more desperately if trapped.

There are moments in life when a man retreats defensively, when he must give ground, when he must surrender less important positions in order to protect the more important ones. But should it come to the very last, the most important one, at this point a man must halt and stand firm if he doesn't want to begin life all over again with idle hands and a feeling of being shipwrecked.

It's the same with men as with horses and dogs, nothing wants to die.

Dogs will eat till they die. Cats will leave food in the dish, incomprehensible to a dog.

God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves, but He had given animals knowledge which did not depend on reason, and which was much more prompt and perfect in its way, and by which they had often saved the lives of men.

Instinct is a great matter. I was now a coward on instinct.

When stuck in the river, it is best to dive and swim to the bank yourself before someone drops a large stone on your chest in an attempt to hoosh you there.

In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

If the bears don't get you, it's home.

The Deer don't dineWhen a Wolf's about,And the PorcupineSticks his quill-points out.

If you come to think of it, you never see deer, dogs and rabbits worrying about their menus and yet they run much faster than humans.

The bull is stronger, but the matador is smarter.