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"He had a cot in the basement and he'd be telling stories non stop," Houston said from his Saskatoon home.

"He wasn't famous yet, but you could see he had tremendous talent."

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"Either we learn to do this, or we cease to exist. We have no God given right to survive forever. We have screwed up so badly in so many ways, so obviously, that only an utterly stupid species would consider that we have much of a future, as things stand. Only by recognizing how far off track we've gone, are we likely to be able to recover our footing and carry on."

Mowat, who died this week at age 92, spent some of his youth in Saskatoon, and after serving in the Second World War he returned to the province to collect bird specimens and write a book on Saskatchewan birds for the Royal Ontario Museum.

Born in Belleville, Ont., on May 12, 1921, Mowat grew up in Windsor and Saskatoon, where he first discovered his love for nature. He explored the countryside and raised a menagerie of animals, including owls, rattlesnakes and even an alligator, much of which was detailed in his 1957 book, The Dog Who Wouldn't Be.

Mowat's career spanned more than five decades and included more than 40 books translated into dozens of languages. He earned numerous honours including the Governor General's Literary Award and the Order of Canada. His final book, Eastern Passage, was published in 2010.

"He said, 'I don't bother with the facts. I write the truth.' That epitomizes Mowat," Houston said.

Mowat served in the Second World War as a platoon commander and later as an intelligence officer in the Allied invasion of Europe.

"It's a matter of survival," he told The Canadian Press in a 2006 interview.

description of mating ruddy ducks drew the ire of some readers and advertisers, which led to the column's cancellation after less than two months.

Before Farley Mowat wrote his celebrated books, he was a young man banding birds in rural Saskatchewan.

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Upon his return to Canada, he travelled north and found Canada's Inuit community living in desperate conditions, which inspired 1952's People of the Deer, a scathing look at government policies that he said hurt Canada's indigenous people. It sparked a national debate about Canadian policy in the Arctic.

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Mowat never finished the bird book, but the dozens of others he wrote during his long career including Owls in the Family and Never Cry Wolf sold millions Converse Shoes For Men Leather White of copies around the world.

Throughout his life, Mowat was adamant that humans learn to live in harmony with the natural world.

Dr. Stuart Houston, 86, banded birds alongside Mowat in the Yorkton area.