17 Quotes by David Petersen

I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an essential and deeply meaningful part of life.

Naturally and logically, people who forage rather than herd domestic beasts and tend crops for a living - that is, people who depend utterly on wild as opposed to agriculture nature for their welfare - inevitably come to view themselves as merely an element of it all, one member of an egalitarian community, alternately eating and being eaten.

I've known no better teacher than hunting. And what hunting has taught me is hardly restricted to the ways of wildings and woods.

A minimal level of sportsman ethics afield is mandated by written law. Beyond that, say, when an action is legal but ethically questionable, or when (as Aldo Leopold long ago pointed out) no one is watching, hunter ethics is an individual responsibility. As the existentialists would have it, we determine our own honor minute by minute, action by action, one decision at a time.

Without trying to cast aspersions in any way on past management companies, I do think the Boykin people have done a very good job,

You say 'never to be forgotten' but I think the sooner we forget him the better.

Take no duty of the Guard lightly. Friends must not be enemies Just as enemies must not be friends. Discerning the two is a life’s work.

I’ve known no better teacher than hunting. And what hunting has taught me is hardly restricted to the ways of wildings and woods.