My Dad always said "don't ever let the truth get in the way of a good story." Resonates with Mowat's "never let the facts get in the way of the truth."


I actually think there is no such animal as "truth" but there are perspectives, paradigms and mythologies that convey those perspectives that are life enhancing and empowering to all of creation as we know and are capable of experiencing it within the limitations of the senses of sentient beings existing on this little rock orbiting a lesser star within a universe or universes far beyond our capacity to sense, much less comprehend. Facts matter. So does mythology in our human quests to understand that which is beyond our capacity to understand.

Mowat's perspective and writings empowered so many of us to look through "new eyes" to a certain extent.