Quotes and Sayings About Hunting
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She wants to be flowers, but you make her owls. You must not complain, then, if she goes hunting.
-- Alan Garner -
If you look at the best-seller list for American fiction, they're all sequels to detective stories or stories about hunting serial killers. That's what's called American fiction these days.
-- Albert Brooks -
The time will come when public opinion will no longer tolerate amusements based on the mistreatment and killing of animals. The time will come, but when? When will we reach the point that hunting, the pleasure in killing animals for sport, will be regarded as a mental aberration?
-- Albert Schweitzer -
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.
-- Aldo Leopold -
There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.
-- Aldo Leopold -
How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!
-- Aldo Leopold -
Our Nation, a great stage for the acting out of great thoughts, presents the classic confrontation between Locke's views of the state of nature and Rousseau's criticism of them... Nature is raw material, worthless without the mixture of human labor; yet nature is also the highest and most sacred thing. The same people who struggle to save the snail-darter bless the pill, worry about hunting deer and defend abortion. Reverence for nature, mastery of nature- whichever is convenient.
-- Allan Bloom -
University convention submerges nature. It issues licenses, and hunting without one is forbidden.
-- Allan Bloom -
Listing the polar bear under the Endangered Species Act could harm bear conservation efforts by eliminating revenues from the carefully-regulated sport hunting of polar bears by Americans and the importation of polar bear meat and trophies into the U.S. As hunting by non-Americans would replace hunting by Americans, nothing would be accomplished in terms of reducing the number of polar bears killed, but the revenue currently generated by American sport hunters for conservation and research efforts would be eliminated.
-- Amy Ridenour -
Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.
-- Andre Maurois -
We also heard the usual old nonsense that banning hunting would affect employment if we abolished crime we would put all the police out of work. If we abolished ill-health we would put all the nurses and doctors out of work. Will anybody argue that we should preserve crime and ill-health in order to keep people in jobs?
-- Ann Widdecombe -
People are important too, however, and what a terrible impact a total ban on hunting would have on the rural economy, which is still reeling from the after-effects of foot and mouth disease. With average net farm income having fallen to 5,200 per farm in England and 4,100 in Wales, it seems an act of spiteful vandalism to destroy literally thousands of jobs in deeply rural areas, when it is simply not necessary to do so and where no meaningful alternative employment exists.
-- Ann Winterton -
I was the vampire Lestat again. I was back in action. New Orleans was once again my hunting ground.
-- Anne Rice -
I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
The world is the devil's hunting-ground, and children are his choicest game.
-- Anthony Comstock -
If I'm hunting down gifts, I like to buy locally.
-- Arabella Weir -
Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters.
-- Archibald Rutledge -
The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon.
-- Archibald Rutledge -
If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the Gods must clearly smile on hunting.
-- Aristotle -
It is a surprisingly close progression from hunting animals to hunting and torturing people.. catching and lynching blacks or smoking out Jews during the Holocaust.
-- Aviva Cantor -
The Scoutmaster must be alert to check badge hunting as compared to badge earning.
-- Baden Powell de Aquino -
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 -
Someday you'll remember what I said and you'll thank me for it." Francie wished adults would stop telling her that. Already the load of thanks in the future was weighing her down. She figured she'd have to spend the best years of her womanhood hunting up people to tell them that they were right and to thank them.
-- Betty Smith -
I cannot think of a worse way of destroying an animal. Only two other methods come to mind, and they are similar. One is to boil the fox alive, and the other is to burn it alive. Those are just about the only alternatives that are worse than hunting.
-- Bill Etherington -
Is it [hunting] really a sport if you have all the equipment and your opponent doesn't know a game is going on?
-- Bill Maher -
I get highs, to be totally honest, in second-hand shops. My hunting instinct, I expect, really kicks in.
-- Bjork -
Football is a thinly disguised re-enactment of hunting; we played it before we were human.
-- Carl Sagan -
We see that there are two different kinds of...societies: (a) parasitic societies and (b) producing societies. The former are those which live from hunting, fishing, or merely gleaning. By their economic activities they do not increase, but rather decrease, the amount of wealth in the world. The second kind of societies, producing societies, live by agricultural and pastoral activities. By these activities they seek to increase the amount of wealth in the world.
-- Carroll Quigley