Quotes About Wildlife

Farming as we do it is hunting, and in the sea we act like barbarians.

The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck.

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

The definition of obscenity on the newsstands should be extended to many hunting magazines.

Growing up, I've enjoyed hunting with my father.

The No. 1 rule in duck hunting is to go where the ducks are.

In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen.

Hunting is the last perfect thing.

There's an absolute surety to the hands-on conservation lifestyle of hunting, fishing and trapping where you know you're going to consume today.

I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport

I am sort of anti-hunting. I don't put down what anyone wants to do, but it seems to me that killing a creature for fun is not a progressive idea.

A downed animal is most certainly the object of a hunting trip, but it becomes an anticlimax when compared to the many other pleasures of the hunt.

Dating back to Teddy Roosevelt, hunters have been the pillar of conservation in America, doing more than anyone to conserve wildlife and its habitat.

Once we get three more directors elected, the Sierra Club will no longer be pro-hunting and pro-trapping and we can use the resources of the $95-million-a-year budget to address some of these issues.

You have to go hunting to know the excitement of seeing someone get their first deer. It's a thrill for them. It is.

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

If we want foxes, to observe and delight in, we must have hunting.

I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine.

Fishing is not a benign activity; it is hunting in the water.

I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.

There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of a trophy.

Most of my hunting experiences has been in tree stands. I've never called deer.

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

Hunting will never feed lots of people; it will always be a hobby.