Humankind can generally be divided into hunters and people who cope with the consequences.
Hunting Quotes
I have now learned, by hunting, to perceive, that it is no diversion at all, nor ever takes a man out of himself for a moment: the dogs have less sagacity than I could have prevailed on myself to suppose; and the gentlemen often call to me not to ride over them. It is very […]
Up the airy mountain, Down the rushy glen, We daren’t go a hunting For fear of little men.
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 […]
