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In Mongolia, the nomads always told me that wolves were the most dangerous things on the steppe, and I didn't believe them at first.

I think the nomads really give us inspiration about how we can live in harmony with our environment.

Finding shelter with nomads in the desert during summer was a matter of survival for me and my animals.

The romantic view would be that nomads are wonderful people, better than us; they care about the environment.

The nomads' egalitarian lifestyle astonished the Greeks, who kept their own women indoors weaving and minding children. The exotic Scythian lifestyle fueled the Greek imagination and led to an outpouring of myths about fierce Amazons, 'the equals of men.'

Reflective of the deep sense of gratitude and respect Mongolians reserved for wolves, there was a belief that only through wolves could the spirit of a deceased human be set free to go to Heaven.

We have enforced a Darwinian process on wolves, turning them into the shy and elusive animals they've become. They didn't have that fear of us 30,000 years ago. We didn't have gunpowder; we had rocks. Wolves would have seen us as lunch, and we were weak and slow and tasty.

Wolfhounds helped kill off the wolves in Ireland.

Wolves and women are relational by nature, inquiring, possessed of great endurance and strength. They are deeply intuitive, intensely concerned with their young, their mate and their pack. Yet both have been hounded, harassed and falsely imputed to be devouring and devious, overly aggressive, of less value than those who are their detractors.

All my life I have been a nomad.