HUNTING QUOTES II
quotations about hunting
I suppose if there were a part of the world in which mastodon still lived, somebody would design a new gun, and men, in their eternal impudence, would hunt mastodon as they now hunt elephant. Impudence seems to be the word. At least David and Goliath were of the same species, but, to an elephant, a man can only be a midge with a deathly sting.
BERYL MARKHAM
West with the Night
Some may think that hunters are cruel people, and that the blood and death of animals gives them pleasure. Oh, it is not so, Gentlemen! I knew many hunters who could not watch others butcher a calf or a rooster. They were not even able to finish off an injured game animal, because they had such soft, kind hearts!
A. A. CHERKASSOV
Notes of an East Siberian Hunter
The dusky night rides down the sky,
And ushers in the morn;
The hounds all join in glorious cry,
The huntsman winds his horn,
And a-hunting we will go.
HENRY FIELDING
"A-Hunting We Will Go"
A hunter is a peculiar type of character much given to solitude if he is a true predator.
DAVID BRIAN PLUMMER
Diary of a Hunter
The flesh is sweeter, where the creature has some chance for its life; for that reason, I always use a single ball, even if it be at a bird or a squirrel; besides, it saves lead, for, when a body knows how to shoot, one piece of lead is enough for all, except hard-lived animals.
JAMES FENIMORE COOPER
The Pioneers
Hi! handsome hunting man
Fire your little gun.
Bang! Now the animal
is dead and dumb and done.
Nevermore to peep again, creep again, leap again,
Eat or sleep or drink again. Oh, what fun!
WALTER DE LA MARE
Rhymes and Verses
This world a hunting is:
The prey, poor man; the Nimrod fierce is Death;
His speedy greyhounds are
Lust, sickness, envy, care,
Strife that ne'er falls amiss,
With all those ills which haunt us while we breathe.
Now, if by chance we fly
Of these the eager chase,
Old Age with stealing pace
Casts up his nets, and there we panting die.
WILLIAM DRUMMOND
"The World a Game"
The hunter never hates his quarry; it's a thing which he wants to get, to reduce into possession, so how could he hate it?
K. J. PARKER
Devices and Desires
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox -- the unspeakable in full pursuit of the uneatable.
OSCAR WILDE
A Woman of No Importance
There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
CHARLES DICKENS
Oliver Twist
There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.
ALDO LEOPOLD
A Sand County Almanac
Leashed hounds have ways intended to set us guessing
That the hunting is better than it is, to be gone
From restraint of the leash, to be ever circling and pressing
Outward along the trails that lure them on.
And their tails are like banners waving out before us
While we grow tense for sounds of the opening chorus
That tells the chase has begun, but once they're away
They are wise enough to hunt and so ignore us
Grown too impatient for prey.
GLENN WARD DRESBACH
Selected Poems
The invention of the art [of hunting] is from the gods; for hunting and dogs were the care of Apollo and Diana, who rewarded and honoured Chiron with a knowledge of them on account of his regard for justice.
XENOPHON
Cynegeticus
God created man and He created the world for him to live in and I reckon He created the kind of world He would have wanted to live in if He had been a man--the ground to walk on, the big woods, the trees and the water, and the game to live in it. And maybe He didn't put the desire to hunt and kill game in man but I reckon He knew it was going to be there, that man was going to teach it to himself, since he wasn't quite God himself yet.
WILLIAM FAULKNER
Go Down
A hunter stalks his prey. There is always an invisible wall between him and the animal he hunts. Compared to a photographer or an artist, a hunter is a stranger in the forest. A hunter can shatter the invisible wall with one shot, but he can never simply walk through it. The wall never seems to dissolve for the hunter as it does for the photographer, who can, if he or she is careful, enter that natural world and become a part of it.
KATHRYN LASKY
Think Like an Eagle
The Pennsylvania Game Commission has charged a man with going deer hunting with a handgun in a Wal-Mart parking lot. He is being charged with reckless endangerment, but may plead guilty to the lesser charge of being a redneck.... Hunting in a Wal-Mart parking lot. That’s got to be some good eating -- a deer that lives on leftover Twizzlers and Mountain Dew.
JAY LENO
The Tonight Show, Mar. 28, 2013
If we act like prey, they'll act like predators.
ALYXANDRA HARVEY
My Love Lies Bleeding
Shooting game and being shot at by Indians make rather an exciting life.
DONN PIATT
Blennerhassett's Island
Certainly there is no hunting like the hunting of man and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never really care for anything else thereafter.
ERNEST HEMINGWAY
"On the Blue Water,", Esquire, Apr. 1936
The amateur hunter is heard on the hill.
You'd better be doing a get-away stunt or
Your person with buckshot he's likely to fill;
For amateur hunters have somehow a habit
Of shooting too soon, and dear Kathleen, they may
Mistake you, alas! for a quail or a rabbit
And leave you a mass of inanimate clay.
ARTHUR G. BURGOYNE
"'Ware the Amateur Hunter"