Every year I sit alone with a wolf. The wolf doesn’t agree to this, as I catch it as part of a research program on wolves in Yellowstone National Park. The wolf is sedated, but we still sit together, alone, looking out at the great park.
I cherish these moments. The quiet beauty all around and the wolf's presence; it almost seems as if the wolf is talking to me. A look into wolf eyes will make you think deeply about life. The incessant, drowning-out noise of humanity gets turned off. I strain to understand what this life might be like. One time, when others were boarding the helicopter to fly out, leaving me alone with a wolf, I said: "If you don't come back it's okay. Leave me here forever with the wolf."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/my-time-with-male-911-this-yellowstone-wolf-was-safe-from-people-but-not-from-nature/2019/05/31/fbbbf8a8-7cda-11e9-8ede-f4abf521ef17_story.html
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