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- The emotions that good hunters need to cultivate are love and service more than courage. The sentiments of the hunt then become translated into art.
- James Swan, In Defense of Hunting
- 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)
- 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)
- 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
- 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)
- We cannot but pity the boy who has never fired a gun; he is no more humane, while his education has been sadly neglected.
- Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862)
- The pleasure of the sportsman in the chase is measured by the intelligence of the game and its capacity to elude pursuit and in the labor involved in the capture.
- John Dean Caton
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