Hunting Quotes - Page 3

• A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct

  Aldo Leopold

  Hunters, Peculiar, Wildlife

  Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.178, Oxford University Press, USA

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• The creatures that want to live a life of their own, we call wild. If wild, then no matter how harmless, we treat them as outlaws, and those of us who are specially well brought up shoot them for fun.

  Clarence Day

  Fun, Want, Matter

  Clarence Day, Jr. (2004). “This Simian World”, p.28, 1st World Publishing

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• Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost.

  Meriwether Lewis

  Night, White, Numbers

  Meriwether Lewis (2012). “History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.”, p.197, tredition

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• Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.

  Edward Abbey

  Animal, Moral, Photograph

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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• To horse and away To the heart of the fray! Fling care to the Devil for one merry day!

  William Henry Ogilvie

  Horse, Heart, Devil

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• Woman's success in lifting men out of their way of life nearly resembling that of the beasts who merely hunted and fished for food, who found shelter where they could in jungles, in trees, and caves was a civilizing triumph.

  Mary Ritter Beard

  Men, Civilization, Tree

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• "Natural" man is always there, under the changeable historical man. We call him and he comes-a little sleepy, benumbed, without his lost form of instinctive hunter, but, after all, still alive. Natural man is first prehistoric man-the hunter.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Men, Historical, Firsts

  Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.125, Wilderness Adventures Press

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• A duck call in the hands of the unskilled is one of conservation's greatest assets

  Nash Buckingham

  Hands, Ducks, Conservation

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• A beaver is about like the ninjas the suckers only work at night and they're hard to find.

  Si Robertson

  Work, Night, Ninja

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• I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.

  Ed Zern

  Sports, Spectators, Regard

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• We eat, therefore we hunt.

  Sarah Palin

  Hunts

  "Sarah Palin Opens Up About Private Life". "The O'Reilly Factor" with Bill O'Reilly, www.foxnews.com. January 20, 2010.

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• The hunter who accepts the sporting code of ethics keeps his commandments in the greatest solitude, with no witness or audience other than the sharp peaks of the mountain, the roaming cloud, the stern oak, the trembling juniper, and the passing animal.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Animal, Clouds, Solitude

  Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.42, Wilderness Adventures Press

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• If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Archery, Cameras, Thrill

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• It’s paradoxical that the death of your quarry is besides the point and at the same time the whole point. A chase without a kill as its object is like a journey without a destination; a kill without a chase employing all the hunter’s craft is killing, not hunting.

  Philip Caputo

  Journey, Hunters, Crafts

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• Civilized life has altogether grown too tame, and, if it is to be stable, it must provide a harmless outlets for the impulses which our remote ancestors satisfied in hunting.

  Bertrand Russell

  Outlets, Impulse, Ancestor

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.452, Routledge

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• Hunting humans for sport? Eating them?" the bitterness in his voice cut through me. "Yeah, I caught that part." "That doesn't have anything to do with you? He lifted his eyes, gaze shuttered. "No?" "Not unless being a werewolf transforms you into a wolf AND a redneck moron.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Sports, Eye, Cutting

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• If you wait through long, cold hours in the November woods with a bow in your hands hoping a buck will show or if you spend days walking in the African bush trailing Cape buffalo while listening to lions roar, you’re sure to learn hunting isn’t about killing. Nature actually humbles you. Hunting forces a person to endure, to master themselves, even to truly get to know the wild environment. Actually, along the way, hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.

  Donald Trump, Jr.

  Falling In Love, Hands, Fishing

  "How Trump's son's passion for hunting is shaping search for Interior secretary" By Tal Kopan, www.cnn.com. December 9, 2016.

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• In our rather stupid time, hunting is belittled and misunderstood, many refusing to see it for the vital vacation from the human condition that it is, or to acknowledge that the hunter does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, he kills in order to have hunted.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Stupid, Vacation, Order

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• Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of Nature.

  Jose Ortega y Gasset

  Religious, Men, Law

  Jose Ortega y Gasset (2007). “Meditations on Hunting”, p.106, Wilderness Adventures Press

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• A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.

  Frederick The Great

  Men, Compassion, Animal

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• I think of football as a sport the way ducks think of hunting as a sport.

  Bill Watterson

  Sports, Football, Thinking

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• We are always hearing of people who are around seeking after the Truth. I have never seen a (permanent) specimen. I think he has never lived. But I have seen several entirely sincere people who thought they were (permanent) Seekers after the Truth. They sought diligently, persistently, carefully, cautiously, profoundly, with perfect honesty and nicely adjusted judgment- until they believed that without doubt or question they had found the Truth. That was the end of the search. The man spent the rest of his hunting up shingles wherewith to protect his Truth from the weather.

  Mark Twain

  Truth, Honesty, Men

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• When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.

  Hunter S. Thompson

  Music, Sports, Dating

  Fear and Loathing: On the Campaign Trail '72 (1972)

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• Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

  James Joyce

  Mind, Balance, Lost

  James Joyce (2016). “ULYSSES (Modern Classics Series)”, p.237, e-artnow

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• If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

  Josh Billings

  Funny, Happiness, Happy

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