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Quotes About Hunting

My family raised bird dogs when I was growing up in Jonesboro, Arkansas, and I'm a gun owner myself.
~ Doug McMillon
I support gun safety measures, and I'll tell you, I grew up in a family of gun owners and hunters, and I went hunting with my dad as a kid, and you know, I have deep respect for the Second Amendment and the culture of our country.
~ Eric Swalwell
Well, I like the environment. I think anybody who owns land or really likes going out hunting, they care about the environment as well.
~ Madison Cawthorn
I grew up in West Palm Beach, Florida. My dad took me hunting, trapping and fishing when I was a kid.
~ John W. Thompson
Humans are uniquely good throwers. No other species even comes close. Monkeys and apes can throw branches, rotten fruit, and excrement (I still remember an encounter with an irate troop of howler monkeys in Costa Rica . . .), but they do not use projectiles as lethal weapons in hunting or combat. Our closest relatives, chimpanzees, are quite pathetic at throwing.94 Imagine
~ Peter Turchin
The giant squid has the biggest eyes of any animal on the planet. It's a visual predator.
~ Edith Widder
We're visual creatures. Probably, when we were hunter gatherers... that was the kind of thing that mattered. And remembering, say, phone numbers was, like, not that important when you're hunting down a mastodon or whatever.
~ Joshua Foer
If I shoot it, I'm gonna eat it.
~ Paul Broun
Much of the food he put on the table came from hunting—despite the fact that he was uncomfortable killing animals. "My dad cried every time he shot a deer," Billie says, 'but we had to eat, so he did it.
~ Jon Krakauer
Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. This is very silly. Murdering someone would surely prove that you are capable of killing, but it woudln't be the most reasonable way to understand why you should or shouldn't do it.
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
Mike said it was deer season.
~ Aaron Stander
So when you 3 go hunting you can adopt my advice, and carry your tablets as well as your food-basket and flask, for you will find that Minerva roams the mountains no less than Diana.
~ Pliny the Younger
Whether hunting is right or wrong, a spiritual experience, or an outlet for the killer instinct, one thing it is not is a sport. Sport is when individuals or teams compete against each other under equal circumstances to determine who is better at a given game or endeavor. Hunting will be a sport when deer, elk, bears, and ducks are... given 12-gauge shotguns. Bet we'd see a lot fewer drunk yahoos (live ones, anyway) in the woods if that happened.
~ R. Lerner
We're designed for persistence hunting, which is a mix of running and walking. What's built into that kind of running is a sense of pleasure. You are designed and built and perfect for this activity, and it should be enjoyable and fun.
~ Christopher McDougall
Quite honestly, I live in California in the off season. Going off to Green Bay is just like two different walks of life - I hunt, fish, practice with firearms. Back in California, it's spend time at the beach, go to the movies.
~ Clay Matthews III
Argentina has the best bird shooting in the world.
~ W. E. B. Griffin
We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It's time now.
~ Cass Sunstein
That's sad, said Montag, quietly,(referring to The Hound) because all we put into it is hunting and finding and killing. What a shame if that's all it can ever know.
~ Ray Bradbury
If I went out with a couple of rifles and a gun bearer, and twenty or thirty beaters, to hunt a lion, I should not feel that the lion had much chance, and so the pleasure of the hunt would be lessened in proportion to the increased safety which I felt.
~ Joseph Conrad
The fledgling and ragtag American army turned its state into a semi-plausible advantage, encouraging enlistees to wear their own hunting shirts to build on the reputation of frontier marksmen.
~ Joseph J. Ellis
Well – at least Binky's in a zoo.' 'Yes, he's in a zoo, where they keep wild hunting dogs and lions. They all get on so well, it's like Madagascar 3 in here.
~ Danny Wallace
Cyber hygiene, patching vulnerabilities, security by design, threat hunting and machine learning based artificial intelligence are mandatory prerequisites for cyber defense against the next generation threat landscape.
~ James Scott
Who in God's name do these rubies belong to?' 'You. But you wouldn't suit them,' said Philippa. 'Ffarewell Carboncle chosen chief. It's my husband-hunting equipment. What about you?' 'I don't hunt husbands,' said Lymond, getting up. 'It's the other way about.
~ Dorothy Dunnett
Sables from Pechora, and white and dun fox, and the pelts of white wolves, and bearskins. From Siberia, red and black fox and the white fur of squirrels. Lynx and ermine. Wolverine, marten and beaver. What once lived and breathed and hunted through forest and snowfield piled now in stalls, fifty small skins between boards, sold as a timber.
~ Dorothy Dunnett