Perspective

The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness, and Greed - John Vaillant

"Like Alaska, this landscape exudes an overwhelming power to diminish all who move across it. A colony of 500-kilogram sea lions might as well be a cluster of maggots, and a human being nothing but an animated pouch of plasma for feeding mosquitoes. That something as small as a man could have any impact on such a place seems almost laughable."

 

(Describing British Columbia)

 

John Vaillant - The Golden Spruce: A True Story of Myth, Madness and Greed