"The wild is not a place. It is a season."

荒野不是一个地方。它是一个季节。

"The hawk was a mirror in which I saw myself reflected."

这只鹰是一面镜子，我在其中看到了自己的倒影。

"The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there."

过去是一个陌生的国度；那里的人做事方式不同。

"To train a hawk you must watch it like a hawk."

要训练一只鹰，你必须像鹰一样观察它。

"The stories we tell about animals say more about us than they do about them."

我们讲述的关于动物的故事更多地反映了我们自己，而不是它们。

"Wild things are made from human histories."

野性之物是由人类历史塑造的。

"The hawk was everything I wanted to be: solitary, self-possessed, free from grief, and numb to the hurts of human life."

这只鹰是我想要成为的一切：孤独、自制、远离悲伤，对人类生活的伤害麻木不仁。

"Training a hawk is a dialogue, not a monologue."

训练一只鹰是一场对话，而不是独白。

"Grief is not a line, carrying you infinitely further from loss. It is a circle, and you come back, again and again, to the same place."

悲伤不是一条线，让你无限远离失去。它是一个圆，你会一次又一次回到同一个地方。

"There is a world of difference between the love we feel for a wild creature and the love we feel for a human being."

我们对野生动物的爱与对人类之爱有着天壤之别。