White Fang Man and the Natural World Quotes

How we cite our quotes: (Chapter.Paragraph) Shmoop has numbered the chapters continuously, but the book renumbers them in each Part.

Quote #10

Woven into her being was the memory of countless crimes he and his had perpetrated against her ancestry. Not in a day nor a generation were the ravaged sheepfolds to be forgotten. (23.3)

Even in Scott's ancestral family estate, with the sunlight and the puppies and the non-killing of chickens, nature creeps in. Collie is willing to defend what she has against the intruding White Fang, just like she would in nature. We can't deny it, we can only try to accept it, and maybe control it.