Random Hunting & Fishing Quotes

Fishing Painting by Thomas G Targett
Eat and Be Eaten

 

“The woods are made for the hunters of dreams, the brooks for the fishers of song”.

–Sam Foss

“Rich, ‘the Old Man said dreamily, ‘is not baying after what you can’t have. Rich is having the time to do what you want to do. Rich is a little whiskey to drink and some food to eat and a roof over your head and a fish pole and a boat and a gun and a dollar for a box of shells. Rich is not owing any money to anybody, and not spending what you haven’t got.”

Robert Ruark, “The Old Man’s Boy Grows Older”

“When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God”.

–Fred Bear

“In this quiet, peaceful time of twilight there is, in this great circle of life, an awful lot of hunting and fishing and catching and killing and dying and eating going on all around me. As the old fisherman said, ‘That’s the way with life. Sometimes you eat well; sometimes you are well-eaten.'”

–Paul Quinnett, Darwin’s Bass

“Come warm weather, I’m going to take a kid fishing; I hope you do to. But nothing would make me happier than to look across the cove or down the stream and see a young one help an old one remember what it is like to be young in Springtime.”

–Gene Hill

“How like fish we are: ready, nay eager, to seize upon whatever new thing some wind of circumstance shakes down upon the river of time! And how we rue our haste, finding the gilded morsel to contain a hook!”

–Aldo Leopold  

“No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.”

John Ruskin, The Two Paths

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Michael Patrick McCarty

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