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- I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.
- Ed Zern
- In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919)
- If there is a sacred moment in the ethical pursuit of game, it is the moment you release the arrow or touch off the fatal shot.
- Jim Posewitz
- He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950), Major Barbara, 1907
- I kill when I hunt and do not apologize for that, although I reserve the right to think about its implications. I also hunt without killing- whether by accident or design-and I do not apologize for that either. There is room in longbow country for a spectrum of tastes and attitudes, and that is as it should be.
- E. Donnall Thomas, Jr.
- I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.
- Alexis De Tocqueville (1805 - 1859)
- In God's wildness lies the hope of the world - the great fresh unblighted, unredeemed wilderness. The galling harness of civilization drops off, and wounds heal ere we are aware.
- John Muir (1838 - 1914), John of the Mountains, 1938
- The wrongs done to trees, wrongs of every sort, are done in the darkness of ignorance and unbelief, for when the light comes, the heart of the people is always right.
- John Muir (1838 - 1914), My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
- Anyone who had ever struggled with poverty knows how extremely expensive it is to be poor.
- James Baldwin (1924 - 1987), Fifth Avenue Uptown: A Letter from
- The rich man may never get into heaven, but the pauper is already serving his term in hell.
- Alexander Chase, Perspectives, 1966
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