No amount of stalking will lead to game in a field that has none.
Hunting Quotes
No one is forced to be a politician. It can only compare with fox hunting and writing poetry. These are two things that men do for sheer enjoyment, too.
The perils of duck hunting are great- especially for the duck.
The desire for excitement is very deep-seated in human beings, especially in males. I suppose that in the hunting stage it was more easily gratified than it has been since. The chase was exciting, war was exciting, courtship was exciting. A savage would manage to commit adultery with a woman while her husband is asleep […]
Hunters, mostly men, measure their strength or cunningness by comparing themselves to their animal competitors. For this reason, sportsmen prefer those animals which behave like an equal (human) opponent, a male, wearing “weapons” and fighting back. Their opponents become enemies as shooting is a metaphor of warfare.
‘Unting is all that’s worth living for – all time is lost wot is not spent in ‘unting – it is like the hair we breathe – if we have it not we die – it’s the sport of kings, the image of war without its guilt, and only five-and-twenty per cent of its danger.
