252 Quotes About Hunting

  • Author John Steinbeck
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    But it isn't hunger that drives millions of armed American Males to forests and hills every autumn, as the high incidence of heart failure among the hunters will prove. Somehow the hunting process has to do with masculinity, but I don't quite know how.

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  • Author Dean Koontz
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    He's a man," Themla said."I guess that explains it.""Hairy, Neanderthalic," Thelma said, "perpetually half-crazed from excessive levels of testosterone, plagued by racial memories of the lost glory of mammoth-hunting expeditions - they're all alike.

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  • Author Georgia Pellegrini
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    Modern life conceals our need for diverse, wild, natural communities, but it does not alter that need.. if you want to feel what it is like to be human again, you should hunt, even if just once. Because that understanding, I believe, will propel a shift in how we view and interact with this world that we eat in. And the kind of food we demand, as omnivores, will never be the same.

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  • Author Kate Sherwood
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    I've never really learned how to do this. When we hunted, we had people to take care of what we caught.""I thought you hunted with birds.""We did.""So the birds caught the animals, other people cleaned them... When you say 'hunting,' do you really mean 'going for a walk'?

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  • Author Jean-Paul Roux
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    Av, savaşın yerini tutan bir etkinlik olarak görülürdü ya da daha sonraki bir tarihten kalma bir metne göre savaşı en iyi öğreten etkinlikti. Türklerin gözünde savaş ile av hemen hemen eş anlamlıydı ve genel kural olarak erişkin sayılabilmek için bir insanı öldürmek gerekiyordu, av başarısı da genellikle buna eş tutulurdu.

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  • Author Beryl Markham
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    (On Baron von Blixen:)Six feet of amiable Swede and, to my knowledge, the toughest, most durable White Hunter ever to snicker at the fanfare of safari or to shoot a charging buffalo between the eyes while debating whether his sundown drink will be gin or whisky.

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