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.
Hunting Quotes
‘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.
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 […]
The English country gentleman galloping after a fox – the unspeakable in pursuit of the inedible.
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 […]
All are not hunters who blow the horn.
