Quotes that Speak to Hunters

[318AE]

“One does not hunt in order to kill, on the contrary, one kills to have hunted” - Ortega y Gasset

 

[Caveman]

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.

I am haunted by waters."

Norman Maclean, “A River Runs Through It”

 

[Bandera]

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion, or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle, or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.

 

[Ontario Hunter]

"If I don't shoot em, I don't have to clean em."
*** Ontario Hunter (to anyone wishing me luck hunting pheasants)

"Just how bad do you need to kill something?"
*** Ibid (to technocrap "hunters")

 

[Moody808]

“You don’t get engaged to a Cape Buffalo, you get married to him - for life - his or yours. Not as fast as a Lion or as rapid as a Leopard, not as large as an Elephant, not as bad tempered as a Black Rhino, but committed to one thing – living”.

Harry Tennison

 

[Wyfox]

A lion does not have to roar to prove it is a lion

 

[Kharn]

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"If you are not working to protect hunting, then you are working to destroy it." - Fred Bear

"A hunt based only on the trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be." - Fred Bear

"Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make you a better person." - Fred Bear

"When a hunter is in a treestand with moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God." - Fred Bear

"A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than by a mob of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact." - Aldo Leopold

"Ethical behavior is doing the right thing when no one else is watching, even when doing the wrong thing is legal." - Aldo Leopold

"We abuse land because we see it as a commodity belonging to us. When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect." - Aldo Leopold

"In a civilized and cultivated country, wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. The excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wildlife, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination." -Theodore Roosevelt

"Nothing in this world is worth having or worth doing unless it means effort, pain, and difficulty." - Theodore Roosevelt

"Through almost all of human existence, huntable land and huntable wildlife have preceded the hunter. They caused the hunter. But in the future this must be reversed. It is the hunter who must cause huntable land and wildlife, and a world worth being young in." - John Madison

"All the sounds of this valley run together into one great echo, a song that is sung by all the spirits of this valley. Only a hunter hears it." - Chaim Potok

"Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wilderness is a necessity." - John Muir

"Wilderness to the people of America is a spiritual necessity, an antidote to the high pressure of modern life, a means of regaining serenity and equilibrium." - Sigurd F. Olson

"To sit in a tree and watch the coming of dawn is a strange thing. As soon as you can see the ground with any detail it seems that you're twice as high as you thought you were. Tree stumps go through brief periods when they look like people. The root wads of overturned trees look like bears. You can't tell whether the trail you're sitting along passes through a large meadow you should have noticed earlier or just a slight opening in the trees that you wouldn't have noticed earlier. But as the light comes up enough to make out the individual leaves on the ground, you realize that you're only as high as you thought you were. The stumps go back to being stumps, the root wads back to root wads. The trail begins to look like how you remembered it." - Steven Rinella

"A true hunter recognizes that experiences are the ultimate hunting trophies; he takes pride in walking the ancient and noble pathway that was laid down by his forebears; and even when he returns from a hunt cold, wet, and empty handed, he does so with a full heart." - Steven Rinella

 

[Fatback]

Every morning in Africa, a gazelle wakes up. It knows it must outrun the fastest lion, or it will be killed.
Every morning a lion wakes up. It knows it must outrun the slowest gazelle, or it will starve to death.
It doesn't matter whether you are a lion or a gazelle. When the sun comes up, you better be running.

@Bandera, I have that quote on a nice picture in my office. It’s a great reminder that everybody needs to be hustling.

 

[PHOENIX PHIL]

“Eventually, all things merge into one, and a river runs through it. The river was cut by the world's great flood and runs over rocks from the basement of time. On some of those rocks are timeless raindrops. Under the rocks are the words, and some of the words are theirs.

I am haunted by waters."

Norman Maclean, “A River Runs Through It”

A favorite of mine for sure. Also from the movie:

"If our father had had his way, nobody who did not know how to catch a fish would be allowed to disgrace a fish by catching him".

 

[NIGHTHAWK]

 

[steve white]

"There are no pacts between lions and men" (Achilles to Hector, in "Troy"

"Now this is the law of the jungle
The wolf that shall keep it shall prosper
But the wolf that shall break it must die". Rudyard Kipling

"Come suddenly upon a lion and you will note that he will almost deign not to recognize your presence. He will seem to look right past you or, if he does look at you, it feels as though he is focussed on an object standing some distance behind you. If you are foolish enough to provoke him, it is his eyes that you will remember if you are among those fortunate enough to survive the experience. You have there at least part of the fascination of hunting a lion." Gordon Cundill

 

[Sideshow]

A prayer from our search and rescue in New Zealand “SAR”

 

[Sideshow]

You have to having a good sense of humour I guess if your going tramping around the mountains of NZ looking for miss placed and lost souls.

 

[Azklmsr]

“I am the truth, the way and the life. No one comes to Father except through Me.”

Jesus Christ

 

[Scott CWO]

Josie, I feel as pert as a ruttin’ buck.

A few minutes later, he is dead.

 

[Scott CWO]

Me to hunters that can’t seem to get a shot off even with plenty of time: “There’s one thing for sure in this game, they don’t die unless you pull the trigger.”

 

[RedTag]

Kilimanjaro is a snow-covered mountain 19,710 feet high, and is said to be the highest mountain in Africa. Its western summit is called the Masai "Ngaje Ngai," the House of God. Close to the western summit there is a dried and frozen carcass of a leopard. No one has explained what the leopard was seeking at that altitude.

Ernest Hemingway​

 

[akrifleman]

Bring sh!t that works.

 

[alby]

“Don’t eat the yellow snow!”

 

[375 Ruger Fan]

Fellas.......I'm going to need to see your licenses.........

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