We all have this deep-rooted fascination with the wild. It's as simple as feeding squirrels and pigeons on a park bench for some people.
We all have this deep-rooted fascination with the wild,
And I won't put you through his imitation of it, ... It was just this repeated, very high-pitched, rhythmic, animal-like, totally melted-down scream, over and over. ... And then the bear comes back.
There's very few people who are not fascinated by a wild animal that seems to recognize us, and bring us into their world. All Timothy Treadwell is and was is a more heightened and more intense version of that same impulse in ourselves.
Whether we're a sport hunter or a bear viewer or we're Timothy Treadwell, it's all the same to the bear,
It was like that line in 'Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid' - 'Who ARE those guys?!'
What they don't need is anybody taking care of them.
That doesn't mean that it's wrong, because that impulse is in all of us. But we need to understand that finally, all that the bear wants to do is be left alone. He doesn't want to be our friend.
