He`s come downstairs and I pivoted a little bit too much and he came around the back and he smashed me that hard on the spine that I have broken two vertebrae and I just felt my whole bottom go completely numb straight away.
- Danny Green(Treadwell recorded this truth in his book,) Among Grizzlies, ... pivoted on its back paws and bolted in a violent retreat. ? For me, the encounter was like looking into a mirror. I gazed into the face of a kindred soul, a being that was potentially lethal, but in reality was just as frightened as I was.
- Jewel Palovak