Quotes About Hunting
Any person who has spent time outdoors actually doing something, such as hunting and fishing as opposed to standing there with a doobie in his mouth, knows nature is not intrinsically healthy.
~ P. J. O'Rourke
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The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.
~ Gloria Swanson
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I was very fascinated by the time when firearms went from being fire sticks to being something people could use to hunt and to survive.
~ Joe Perry
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Hunting isn't kosher," she told them. No one had heard of this before. She waved off her initial objection. "I don't keep kosher, as you know," she told them, a little embarrassed. "I still found it impossible to eat pork or shellfish, and I've never eaten game. But if you can kill the animal cleanly, I suppose it doesn't matter.
~ Mary Doria Russell
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Penguins can shut down digestion by lowering the temperature inside their stomach to the point where the gastric juices are no longer active. The stomach becomes a kind of cooler to carry home the fish they've caught for their young. Penguins' hunting grounds may be several days' journey from the nest. Without this handy refrigerated mode, the swallowed fish would be completely digested by the time the adults get back—"like
~ Mary Roach
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Anyone who hunts, the pair told me, eats organs. Though the Inuit (in Canada, the term is preferred over Eskimo) gave up their nomadic existence in the 1950s, most adult men still supplemented the family diet with hunted game, partly to save money. In 1993, when I visited, a small can of Spork, the local Spam, cost $2.69. Produce arrives by plane. A watermelon might set you back $25. Cucumbers were so expensive that the local sex educator did his condom demonstrations on a broomstick.
~ Mary Roach
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Most of these seemingly collected by Keith's mother: "Some of the pleasantest recollections of my boyhood are of fried jackrabbit, baked jackrabbit, jackrabbit stew, and jackrabbit pie.")
~ Mary Roach
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Anyone who hunts, the pair told me, eats organs. Though the Inuit (in Canada, the term is preferred over Eskimo) gave up their nomadic existence in the 1950s, most adult men still supplemented the family diet with hunted game, partly to save money. In 1993, when I visited, a small can of Spork, the local Spam, cost $2.69. Produce arrives by plane. A watermelon might set you back $25. Cucumbers were so expensive that the local sex educator did his condom demonstrations on a broomstick. I
~ Mary Roach
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safety orange/red hunting jacket makes the hunter stand out to other hunters, to deer it may be more camo than store-bought camo.
~ Mary Roach
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Imagine you are a deer. You have essentially only four things to do during the day: sleep, eat, avoid being eaten and socialise (by which I mean mark a territory, pursue a member of the opposite sex, nurse a fawn, whatever).
~ Matt Ridley
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In most hunter-gatherers, women spend long hours gathering, preparing and cooking staple foods while men are out hunting for delicacies.
~ Matt Ridley
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At the cost of some extra work, women get to eat some good protein without having to chase it; men get to know where the next meal is coming from if they fail to kill a deer.
~ Matt Ridley
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Mr Wallace is sitting beside a dying elk. If elk could scream, he reflects, the woods would have fewer hunters.
~ Matthew Scully
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Defended over the ages as necessary to human survival, now all of a sudden hunting is necessary to the animals' survival, at least those favored species deigned fit to exist. But think about what he is saying. What a jaded, selfish view of the world and our place within it - a kind of reverse Genesis in which every species shall now be summoned before almighty man to justify their existence or be banished from creation, man the Unmaker of all things.
~ Matthew Scully
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A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to go out and kill something.
~ Stephen Leacock
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A sportsman is a man who, every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.
~ Stephen Leacock
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The San engage in persistence hunting, which puts to use our three most conspicuous traits: our two-leggedness, which enables us to run efficiently; our hairlessness, which enables us to dump heat in hot climates; and our big heads, which enable us to be rational.
~ Steven Pinker
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In all foraging societies, presumably including our ancestors, hunting is overwhelmingly a male activity. Women are cumbered with children which makes hunting inconvenient and men are bigger and more adapted to killing because of they're evolutionary history of killing each other.
~ Steven Pinker
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Love the woods and nature and the water and animals. Stop the BS with poaching and hunting. Preservation is critical.
~ Taylor Dane
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I hunt deer because I love the entire process; the preparation, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woods lore against the finely honed instincts of these creatures.
~ Fred Bear
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Let us be Diana's foresters, gentlemen of the shade, minions of the moon
~ William Shakespeare
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Wild game (venison, caribou):
~ Jonny Bowden
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Well, I'm more lopsided than a one-legged badger," mewed Graypaw, breaking off from his careful stalking to stagger comically across the clearing. "I think I'll have to settle for hunting stupid mice. They won't stand a chance. I'll just wander up to them and sit on them till they surrender.
~ Erin Hunter
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Whitestorm and Mousefur took the apprentices out," Runningwind explained. "All of the apprentices—more fool them! They're hunting fresh-kill for the elders.
~ Erin Hunter
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