Farley Mowat life story ends at 92

**BCMtnHound** · 05-07-2014, 01:46 PM

Thanks for the all the fun and inspiration your life and work gave to the youth (and the young naturalists at heart) the world over. I look forward to the retelling of your tales to my little one, with the hope that they entertain and inspire her as much as they did me.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/farley-m...t-92-1.2634772

**iscariot** · 05-07-2014, 04:20 PM

Well put. A Canadian and Nature icon.

**cat in january** · 05-07-2014, 05:18 PM

Really enjoyed reading his books as a teenager and I think he had a great influence over my thinking about nature and people.

**Tippster** · 05-08-2014, 04:48 PM

Just heard an interview about him on NPR's "All Things Considered." Why was he so pissed off about internet hotspots in National Parks?

**BCMtnHound** · 05-08-2014, 05:09 PM

His words: "My thoughts can be expressed quite simply. I think it is a disastrous, quite stupid, idiotic concept, and should be eliminated immediately. I have very strong feelings that national parks. provincial parks, any kind of parks, that are theoretically set up to provide for the protection of nature, in some form or another, should be respected absolutely and ultimately and human beings should be kept out of them as much as possible."

I suppose he felt that it was akin to listening to the game while attending mass. FWIW, he made the statement just a couple of days prior to his death, just a few weeks prior to his 93rd birthday, and was never shy about boldly stating his opinions. I seem to recall, but can't place, an interview with him not too long ago that he continued to do all his writing on an old manual typewriter. Perhaps not the biggest fan of modern tech.