"The wild is not a place. It is a season."
荒野不是一个地方。它是一个季节。
"The hawk was a mirror in which I saw myself reflected."
这只鹰是一面镜子,我在其中看到了自己的倒影。
"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."
过去是一个陌生的国度;那里的人做事方式不同。
"To train a hawk you must watch it like a hawk."
要训练一只鹰,你必须像鹰一样观察它。
"The stories we tell about animals say more about us than they do about them."
我们讲述的关于动物的故事更多地反映了我们自己,而不是它们。
"Wild things are made from human histories."
野性之物是由人类历史塑造的。
"The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life."
这只鹰是我想要成为的一切:孤独、自制、远离悲伤,对人类生活的伤害麻木不仁。
"Training a hawk is a dialogue, not a monologue."
训练一只鹰是一场对话,而不是独白。
"Grief is not a line, carrying you infinitely further from loss. It is a circle, and you come back, again and again, to the same place."
悲伤不是一条线,让你无限远离失去。它是一个圆,你会一次又一次回到同一个地方。
"There is a world of difference between the love we feel for a wild creature and the love we feel for a human being."