Elk Quotes

• When the last deer disappears into the morning mist, When the last elk vanishes from the hills, When the last buffalo falls on the plains, I will hunt mice for I am a hunter and I must have my freedom.

  Chief Joseph

  Morning, Fall, Hunting

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• A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage; a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.

  Edward Abbey

  Zoos, Snakes, Earth Day

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• The elk are the most abundant large herbivores in the Yellowstone ecosystem. There are thousands and thousands of them. They migrate in and out. And those migration routes need to stay open.

  David Quammen

  Yellowstone, Ecosystems, Needs

  Source: www.npr.org

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• There is growing awareness of the beauty of country ... a sincere desire to keep some of it for all time. People are beginning to value highly the fact that a river runs unimpeded for a distance... They are beginning to obtain deep satisfaction from the fact that a herd of elk may be observed in back country, on ancestral ranges, where the Indians once hunted them. They are beginning to seek the healing relaxation that is possible in wild country. In short, they want it.

  Olaus Murie

  Running, Country, Distance

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• The river, for example, is the living symbol of all the life it sustains or nourishes - fish, aquatic insects, water ouzels, otter, fisher, deer, elk, bear, and all other animals, including man, who are dependent on it or who enjoy it for its sight, its sound, or its life. The river as plaintiff speaks for the ecological unit of life that is part of it.

  William O. Douglas

  Men, Animal, Rivers

  "Sierra Club v. Morton, 405 U.S. 727". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 19, 1972.

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• The weather was fine and moderate. The hunters all returned, having killed during their absence three elk, four deer, two porcupines, a fox and a hare.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Weather, Two, Foxes

  Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, Thomas Rees (2010). “Travels to the Source of the Missouri River: And Across the American Continent to the Pacific Ocean 1804, 1805, and 1806”, p.213, Cambridge University Press

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• Who's elk horn do I have to blow in order to get something to eat around here?

  Roseanne Barr

  Blow, Order, Horns

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• The elks, on the other hand live up in the hills, and in the spring they come down for their annual convention. It is very interesting to watch them come to the water hole. And you should see them run when they find it is only a water hole. What they're looking for is an 'elk-a-hole'.

  Morrie Ryskind

  Running, Spring, Drinking

  "Fictional character: Captain Spaulding". "Animal Crackers", 1930.

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• I would like to deny all allegations by Bob Hope that during my last game of golf, I hit an eagle, a birdie, an elk and a moose.

  Gerald R. Ford

  Dirty, Golf, Eagles

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• Avoid the traffic by using one of the park's shuttle buses and view the elk rut with a park ranger.

  Dave Barry

  Views, Parks, Ruts

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• I once witnessed more ardent emotions between men at an Elks' Rally in Pasadena than they could ever have felt for the type of woman available to an Elk.

  Anita Loos

  Men, Emotion, Type

  Anita Loos (1974). “Kiss Hollywood good-by”, Viking Adult

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• The last time I played golf with President Ford he hit a birdie. And an eagle, a moose, an elk, an aardvark...

  Bob Hope

  Golf, Eagles, President

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• I haven't got anything against cats. I haven't got anything against elk either, but that doesn't mean I'm going to keep one in the store so I'll have a place to hang my hat.

  Lawrence Block

  Mean, Cat, Hats

  Lawrence Block (2011). “The Bernie Rhodenbarr Mysteries: Volume Two”, p.49, Hachette UK

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• Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport. Sport is when individuals or teams compete against each other under equal circumstances to determine who is better at a given game or endeavor. Hunting will be a sport when deer, elk, bears, and ducks are... given 12-gauge shotguns. Bet we'd see a lot fewer drunk yahoos (live ones, anyway) in the woods if that happened.

  Richard Lerner

  Sports, Spiritual, Team

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• But private lands development around the periphery of the parks - Grand Teton and Yellowstone - is a crucial issue because if those private lands are transformed from open pastures, meadow, forest land to suburbs, to little ranchettes, to shopping malls, to roads, to Starbucks - if those places are all settled for the benefit of humans, then the elk are not going to be able to migrate in and out of Yellowstone Park anymore. And if the elk can't migrate into the park, then that creates problems for the wolves, for the grizzlies, for a lot of other creatures.

  David Quammen

  Issues, Yellowstone, Land

  "< Is Yellowstone National Park In Danger Of Being 'Loved To Death'?". "Fresh Air" with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. April 18, 2016.

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• It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.

  Edward Abbey

  Saving, Cows

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• No one could argue with a straight face that the couples getting married today are much happier just because their wedding celebrations cost three times as much as those in 1980. Bigger mansions and costlier parties are wasteful in the same sense that larger antlers on all bull elk are wasteful. The good news is that simple changes in the tax system can eliminate much of this waste without having to deny people the right to decide for themselves how best to spend their money.

  Robert H. Frank

  Couple, Party, Simple

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• Elk have not been seen in Switzerland for many a year. In the interests of scientific accuracy, please strike the idea of elk from your mind. If you must, think of ibexes instead, a fierce and agile type of goat with great spiraling horns. Marmots will also do in a pinch, but under no circumstances should you think of elk. No. Elk. The elkless among you may now proceed.

  Maryrose Wood

  Thinking, Years, Ideas

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• If the government can set aside some spot for a elk to be a elk without being bothered, or a buffalo to be a buffalo without being shot down, there ought to be some place where a Negro can be a Negro without being Jim Crowed.

  Langston Hughes

  Rights, Government, Buffalo

  Langston Hughes (2015). “The Best of Simple”, p.63, Hill and Wang

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• Call me crazy - I love elk meat!

  Zoe Saldana

  Crazy, Meat, Call Me

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• I was raised in Oklahoma. I was actually born in Tulsa, but I grew up in a small town on the west side of Oklahoma called Elk City on a farm, where my dad grew up, actually.

  Kelli O'Hara

  Dad, Oklahoma, Cities

  "DIVA TALK: A Chat with Piazza's Kelli O'Hara Plus News of Menzel, Haran and Lansbury". Interview with Andrew Gans, www.playbill.com. August 26, 2005.

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• What you and I need to do is learn to forget our differences. When we come together, we don't come together as Baptists or Methodists. You don't catch hell 'cause you're a Baptist, and you don't catch hell 'cause you're a Methodist... You don't catch hell because you're a Democrat or a Republican. You don't catch hell because you're a Mason or an Elk. And you sure don't catch hell 'cause you're an American; 'cause if you was an American, you wouldn't catch no hell. You catch hell 'cause you're a Black man. You catch hell, all of us catch hell, for the same reason.

  Malcolm X

  Powerful, Men, Differences

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• The dog writhing in the gutter, its back broken by a passing car, knows what it is to be alive. So too with the aged elk of the far north woods, slowly dying in the bitter cold of winter. The asphalt upon which the dog lies knows no pain. The snow upon which the elk has collapsed knows not the cold. But living beings do.

  George Greenstein

  Dog, Pain, Lying

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• In the world I see you are stalking elk through the damp canyon forests around the ruins of Rock feller Center. You'll wear leather clothes that will last you the rest of your life. You'll climb the wrist-thick kudzu vines that wrap the Sears Towers. And when you look down, you'll see tiny figures pounding corn, laying stripes of venison on the empty car pool lane of some abandoned superhighways.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Clothes, Rocks, Car

  "Fight Club". www.imdb.com. 1999.

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• I spend most of hunting season at the ranch. We all love to hunt whitetails, and we have a pretty good supply in South Texas. I also love to hunt elk in Arizona, mule deer in Utah, and I've been to Canada to hunt caribou.

  George Strait

  Hunting, Utah, Texas

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