Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren’t go a hunting For fear of little men.
Hunting Quotes
The poor man starves while they are grassing their royal mountain stags or shooting peasants and phartridges in their purblind pomp of pelf and power.
Not only is pig-sticking the most exciting and enjoyable sport for both the man and horse as well, but I really believe that the boar enjoys it too. (Pig-sticking consists of hunting wild boars with spears. The boar is killed)
It is a convention of popular sociology that modern man leads a frustratingly inadequate life in which hunting becomes both overcompensation for a sense of impotence and an attempt to reroot oneself in the natural world. As man has matured, the traditional reason for hunting – to obtain food – has disappeared, along with the […]
“You are a beast of war,” said the Sheep to the Lion, “yet men go gunning for you. Me, a believer in non-resistance, they do not hunt.” – “They do not need to,” replied the son of the desert; “they can breed you.”
I have noticed that most men who live in places where game is plentiful acquire a distaste for killing the wild creatures of the jungle. It suggests itself to them that the graceful creatures, whose habits they have studied, have as much right to life as they.
