Hunting Quotes

The English country gentleman galloping after a fox – the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.

I have heard a clergyman of Maine say that in his parish are the Penobscot Indians and that when anyone of them in summer has been absent for some weeks hunting, he comes back among them a different person and altogether unlike the rest with an eagle’s eye, a wild look, and a commanding carriage […]

All are not hunters who blow the horn.

Back to my cabin and the early weeks of bird season with the wind off Lake Superior at over forty knots during a three-day blow, an autumnal torment that usually doesn’t happen until mid-October. Though my dog Rose is nearly eight years old she doesn’t recognize the meaning of bad weather. She watched me pack […]

At a party recently I was describing the improbable skills of a very large mixed-blod (Objiway) hunter and fisherman I know who at times will drink a full bottle of whiskey with his dinner which is admittedly a bit much. A bright young woman, a sociologist out of the University of Michigan, said my friend […]

On the other side of the smudgy coin the forces of antihunting sem to be increasing, but then this effort is fueled largely by the idea that there is a sacred monoethic by which we all might live. If I readily admit that fully half of all hunters are swinish and regularly betray all notions […]