252 Quotes About Hunting

I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.

Without hunting there would be no conservation, without conservation there would be no wildlife.

There are some who can live without wild things and some who cannot.

There is value in any experience that exercises those ethical restraints collectively called sportsmanship.

How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!

We reached the old wolf in time to watch a fierce green fire dying in her eyes. I realized then, and have known ever since, that there was something new to me in those eyes – something known only to her and to the mountain. I was young then, and full of trigger-itch; I thought that because fewer wolves meant more deer, that no wolves would mean hunters’ paradise. But after seeing the green fire die, I sensed that neither the wolf nor the mountain agreed with such a view.

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct

The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.

They say the oil spill has the potential to kill more wildlife than a Sarah Palin hunting trip.