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- I never dared to be radical when young,
For fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), Precaution, 1936
- 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 (1872 - 1970)
- I never dared to be radical when young,
For fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), Precaution, 1936
- I never dared to be radical when young,
For fear it would make me conservative when old. - Robert Frost (1874 - 1963), Precaution, 1936
- There is a passion for hunting something deeply implanted in the human breast.
- Charles Dickens (1812 - 1870)
- When some of my friends have asked me anxiously about their boys, whether they should let them hunt, I have answered yes-- remembering that it was one of the best parts of my education-- make them hunters.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- All the sounds of this valley run together into one great echo, a song that is sung by all the spirits of this valley. Only a hunter hears it.
- Chaim Potok
- There is a solitude, or perhaps a solemnity, in the few hours that precede the dawn of day which is unlike that of any others in the twenty-four, and which I cannot explain or account for. Thoughts come to me at this time that I never have at any other.
- George Bird Grinnell
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
- Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975), The New Yorker, September 12, 1970
- The wild life of today is not ours to do with as we please. The original stock was given to us in trust for the benefit both of the present and the future. We must render an accounting of this trust to those who come after us.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
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