Hunting Quotes

“Like hunting, fishing offers up a sacrifice and a bond to the land that increases power in those with honorable tactics.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice

“The wolf is made he way the world is made. You cannot touch the world. You cannot hold it in your hand for it is made of breath only.”
― Cormac McCarthy, The Crossing

“Hunting has the potential to balance one’s entire being.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice

“Despite the gruesome view society takes on this practice, like all aspects of hunting and fending for one’s self, even the butchering of a creature can be respectful and spiritual.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice

“Aš manau, kad pasaulyje būtų kur kas daugiau vegetarų, jei kiekvienas žmogus, norėdamas paskanauti mėsytės, pats savo rankomis turėtų nudobti žvėrį, papjauti paukštį, gyvulį ar sugauti žuvį.”
― Juozas Požėra, Žuvys nepažįsta savo vaikų

“First there is the lying in wait for prey; the prey is marked down long before it is aware of our designs on it. With feelings of pleasure and approval it is contemplated, observed and kept watch over; it is seen as meat whilst it is still alive, and so intensely and irrevocably seen as meat that nothing can deflect the watcher's determination to get hold of it. Already while he is prowling round it he feels that it belongs to him. From the moment he selects it as his prey, he thinks of it as incorporated into himself.”
― Elias Canetti, Crowds and Power

“There is a big difference between living in a society that hunts whales and living in one that views them. Nature is being reduced to precious demonstrations for entertainment and education, something far less natural than hunting. Are we headed for a world where nothing is left of nature but parks?”
― Mark Kurlansky, Cod: A Biography of the Fish that Changed the World

“When entering an ecosystem with the intent to hunt, honorable hunters pay their respects.”
― Jessica Marie Baumgartner, The Magic of Nature: Meditations & Spells to Find Your Inner Voice

“The week leading into spring marks the start of the hunt.”
― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo

“You can even hunt the Yeti or abominable snowman if you want to, in Nepal. Boris Lissanevitch or Tom Mendies of Nepal will arrange a Yeti hunt for you anytime that you want. Tom has never seen a Yeti track but Boris has seen several and will almost guarantee that you see a track and with any luck will see an abominable snowman. Actually they are more plentiful than generally believed. The main thing is to get up high enough in the mountains. This can be rugged and keeps most hunters from getting one. They are simply an ape-like animal with reddish-brown hair, facts that are well known in the mountains.”
― George Leonard Herter, How to Get out of the Rat Race and Live on $10 a Month

“Venison stinks when you chew it, it stinks in your gullet. The putrid meat expands in your bowels, it constricts the intestines, it constricts the appetite—it murders you slowly, clogging your organs with its horrifying stink. It constricts the spirit, nothing but a foul and rotten meat that constricts the soul. But, of course, there is no soul, there can be nothing holy in us—there cannot be anything of heaven in us, because we are depraved, because we are no better than the foul venison. We are the meat that rots, the rotten meat on the bone, and we stink from birth until death, from when no soul is wrought to when no soul escapes.”
― Zac Smith, Everything Is Totally Fine

“The kill can be likened to male orgasm. Sex is traditionally thought to be over when the man has an orgasm, and the hunt is never so decisively over as it is after a successful kill. As a teacher, I impatiently listened to a young man matter-of-factly defend the importance of hunting because he found the experience “orgasmic.” From his point of view, all that mattered was how exciting and wonderful the experience was for him.”
― Lisa Kemmerer, Speaking Up for Animals: An Anthology of Women's Voices

“If everyone in nature were too talented not to be hunted by others, everyone would starve!”
― Mehmet Murat ildan

“He who hunts a serpent, hunts a spicy soup. If he strikes the serpent dead, he prepares a spicy soup but if the serpent strikes him, a spicy anti-venom soup is prepared for him. Whether he prepares soup or soup is prepared for him, soup is soup; eat it he must.”
― Vincent Okay Nwachukwu, Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1

“This was a common routine for the group, whenever they were blessed enough to actually hit a deer, rather than scaring it away. It looked like they would be eating well tonight.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“Living off the land took a lot of getting used to for these city folk. They had to learn how to garden and grow their own crops. Of course, they were learning how to hunt and clean their prey, so it could be cut up and cooked. Smoking the meat was another necessary lesson to be learned.”
― Jason Medina, The Manhattanville Incident: An Undead Novel

“I am hunting you down with scientific discovery.”
― Steven Magee

“That had been his secret Indian Trick to hunting, back then: to not hunt. The same way you never find your wallet when you're actually looking for it.

Just, keep a rifle with you.”
― Stephen Graham Jones, After the People Lights Have Gone Off

“Ah wouldn't give uh bitch uh bone if she treed uh terrapin.”
― Zora Neale Hurston, Jonah's Gourd Vine

“I am hunting you down with your research techniques.”
― Steven Magee

“From Great Barrington ma, David Ruddy graduated the Ohio Wesleyan University in 2006 with a double honors in Environmental Studies & Politics and Government.”
― David Ruddy Great Barrington MA

“Av, savaşın yerini tutan bir etkinlik olarak görülürdü ya da daha sonraki bir tarihten kalma bir metne göre savaşı en iyi öğreten etkinlikti. Türklerin gözünde savaş ile av hemen hemen eş anlamlıydı ve genel kural olarak erişkin sayılabilmek için bir insanı öldürmek gerekiyordu, av başarısı da genellikle buna eş tutulurdu.”
― Jean-Paul Roux, Türklerin Tarihi: Pasifik'ten Akdeniz'e 2000 Yıl

“The first turkey that ever came to me on the ground did it a long time ago. I sat there with my hands shaking and my breath short and my heart hammering so hard I could not understand why he could not hear it. The last turkey that came to me last spring had exactly the same effect, and the day that this does not happen to me is the day that I quit.”
― Tom Kelly

“I picked one of the black dirt-encrusted beauties up and breathed in its earthy, sensual scent. This gift of gourmet delights, worth its weight in gold, was clearly delivered by the cooking gods.
"D'Artagnan and Aramis are not only hunting dogs, they're wildly talented truffle trackers,"said Phillipa.
Thanks to the Times, I knew dogs had mostly replaced pigs years ago on the quest for truffles because they were easier to train and didn't chow down on the fungus after they found it.”
― Samantha Verant, The Secret French Recipes of Sophie Valroux

“These were the men that roamed forests for food. They hunted with equipment that gave their prey great odds. They set foot in lands with no guides or maps. They realized that sometimes torches and pitchforks were necessary when grievances to the king would take too long or go unanswered. Your ancestors were men that were not afraid to take action with their own hands, with their brothers and neighbors, and to suffer the consequences. This was their order, their way, and their set of norms. This is not our way, as we are more civilized. What is civilized about enduring the small cuts or humiliations at the hands of an indifferent system and malicious individuals? We are more cowardly. There are countless other behaviors that we engage in that are uncivilized or degraded from those old days that no amount of legal restraint is going to make up for us to claim superiority. We are mollified. We are pacified. We have been conned into the belief that words on paper mean that the men behind them do not matter.”
― Ryan Landry, Masculinity Amidst Madness

“The weekend spent on the hunt for a wild animal for the potential to enjoy meals won with hard work is a crude fall pastime. In their eyes, eating processed food and watching steroided up semi-literates collide with one another is superior. “It is barbaric," they text you from their device made with materials collected by African child labor in mines while wearing shoes made in Asian sweatshops.”
― Ryan Landry, Masculinity Amidst Madness

“Like any craft and tradition, hunting too can be shared and passed down generations. From the dawn of man to our own age, the hunting party is a well-worn staple of masculinity. All hunting parties will have roles and rough hierarchy set into them. There is the man who organized the party, the experienced hunters who guide others, some who entertain and cook, and the new hunters that are not just gophers but the next generation to lead future trips. The hunting party creates inside jokes, stories that can only be known by those who attend, and fosters familial bonds. In our culture of chaos,a hunting trip allows for quiet moments that few get anywhere else with friends or family.”
― Ryan Landry, Masculinity Amidst Madness

“Like a golfer lining up his putt, he pretended to pull the trigger.”
― Joel Burcat

“Just because we don’t eat them doesn’t mean we have to stand there and let them eat us.”
― K.L. Mitchell, The Road to Kalazad

“The bushes parted and a man stepped out. Gytha could see at once this was no charcoal burner. His fine red leather gloves and boots were not fashioned by any cordwainer in these parts. Nor was he a man who needed to hunt to fill his family's hungry bellies, for the flash from the gold thread on the trim of his tunic was enough to alert any quarry for miles around.”
― Karen Maitland, The Gallows Curse