HUNTING QUOTES
quotations about hunting
A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something. Not that he is cruel. He wouldn't hurt a fly. It's not big enough.
STEPHEN LEACOCK
My Remarkable Uncle
Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.
PAUL RODRIGUEZ
attributed, Eating Earth
There are two kinds of hunting: ordinary hunting, and ruffed-grouse hunting.
There are two places to hunt grouse: ordinary places, and Adams County.
There are two times to hunt in Adams: ordinary times, and when the tamaracks are smoky gold. This is written for those luckless ones who have never stood, gun emlpty and mouth agape, to watch the golden needles come sifting down, while the feathery rocket that knocked them off sails unscathed into the jackpines.
ALDO LEOPOLD
A Sand County Almanac
A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be. I have known many hunters who, returning empty-handed, have had nothing to say of the enjoyment of time spent in nature's outdoors.
FRED BEAR
Hunt with Fred Bear
Hunting is a manly exercise, and therefore a proper recreation. But it is the business of a knight-errant to rid the world of other sort of animals than foxes.
HENRY FIELDING
Don Quixote in England
To hunt successfully, you must know your ground, your pack and your quarry.
K. J. PARKER
Devices and Desires
The hunter that travels out into the woods is lost to the world, yet finds himself.
ANONYMOUS
Green wind from the green-gold branches, what is the song you bring?
What are all songs for me, now, who no more care to sing?
Deep in the heart of Summer, sweet is life to me still,
But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.
FIONA MACLEOD
"The Lonely Hunter"
I'm going hunting
I'm the hunter
I'll bring back the goods
But I don't know when
BJÖRK
"Hunter", Homogenic
Hunting is a relic of the barbarism that once thirsted for human blood, but is now content with the blood of animals.
CHRISTIAN NESTELL BOVEE
Intuitions and Summaries of Thought
What that little thing which pass'd by me just there,
Is that what they're hunting -- is that called a hare?
And are all these horses, these dogs and these men,
Employed in pursuing that little thing then?
S. G. H.
"The Hare Hunt"
If God didn't want men to hunt, he wouldn't have given him plaid shirts.
JOHNNY CARSON
The Tonight Show
Fox-hunting is an epitome of human life. You chop or lose your first two or three: but keep up your pluck, and you'll run into one before sundown.
CHARLES KINGSLEY
"Last Christmas Eve", Novels, Poems & Letters
When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.
DALE EARNHARDT
attributed, Wide Open Spaces
I ask people why they have deer heads on their walls. They always say because it's such a beautiful animal. There you go. I think my mother is attractive, but I have photographs of her.
ELLEN DEGENERES
attributed, Humanimal
To remain a hunter is to be too bonded to nature to ever be able to fully master the animal, or to escape its fate.
JAMES MARTEL
Love is a Sweet Chain
Hunting provided us with an ever scarcer relationship in a world of cities, factory farms, and agribusiness, direct responsibility for taking the lives that sustained us. Lives that even vegans indirectly take as the growing and harvesting of organic produce kills deer, birds, snakes, rodents, and insects. We lived close to the animals we ate. We knew their habits and that knowledge deepened our thanks to them and the land that made them.
TED KERASOTE
Merle's Door
The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.
P. G. WODEHOUSE
The Adventures of Sally
Hunting and fishing involve killing animals with devices (such as guns) for which the animals have not evolved natural defenses. No animal on earth has adequate defense against a human armed with a gun, a bow and arrow, a trap that can maim, a snare that can strangle, or a fishing lure designed for the sole purpose of fooling fish into thinking they have found something to eat.
MARC BEKOFF
Animals Matter
A man can live and be healthy without killing animals for food; therefore, if he eats meat, he participates in taking animal life merely for the sake of his appetite. And to act so is immoral.
LEO TOLSTOY
On Civil Disobedience