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- 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 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)
- A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.
- Benjamin Disraeli (1804 - 1881), Speech, March 17, 1845
- 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
- The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
- Adlai E. Stevenson Jr. (1900 - 1965)
- Hunting has opened the earth to me and let me sense the rhythms and hierarchies of nature.
- Charles Fergus
- Unless a man has considerable skill with and reliance in his weapon, he will not remain cool in the presence of dangerous game close by.
- Townsend Whelen
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