Hazel Byford, Baroness Byford quotes

“I have a letter from a police inspector, retired after some 30 years in rural Derbyshire, alerting me to the potential impact of a total ban on hunting on relationships between the police and the community in rural areas - a particularly significant consideration in current circumstances. Is it, I ask myself, sensible to divert valuable police time to enforce a ban on hunting when they are under so much pressure from violent crime?”
-- Hazel Byford, Baroness Byford

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“We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.”

Source : "A Sand County Almanac: And Sketches Here and There". Book by Aldo Leopold. Chapter "Arizona and New Mexico: Thinking Like a Mountain", p. 130-132, 1949.

“There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.”

“Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.”

“The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game.”

Source : Anthony Comstock, J. M. Buckley (2009). “Traps for the Young”, p.240, Cosimo, Inc.

“Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters.”

Source : Archibald Rutledge, James A. Casada (1994). “America's Greatest Game Bird: Archibald Rutledge's Turkey Hunting Tales”, p.18, Univ of South Carolina Press

“The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon.”

Source : Archibald Rutledge, James A. Casada (1994). “America's Greatest Game Bird: Archibald Rutledge's Turkey Hunting Tales”, p.9, Univ of South Carolina Press

“You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.”

Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “AA Gill is Away”, p.46, Simon and Schuster

“I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.”

“If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.”

“Dear Mr. and Mrs. Obama, Thank you for sending me Christmas and New Year greetings yet again. Welcome back to India... Would have loved to host you at my concert in Baroda on the 26th!”