{"quotes":[{"text":"As the people of Shishmaref lose their natural hunting grounds to the warming sea, they are forced to buy U.S. Canned goods from the only local store on the island; however, this is not their natural diet and cannot sustain them throughout the year.","author":"Amy J. Berg","tags":["sea","people","hunting "],"id":4689,"author_id":"Amy+J.+Berg"},{"text":"When I went into the business, I sat down and figured that I was indeed one of fortune's children. Just think. There were 20 million buffalo, each worth at least $3 -- $60 million. At the very outside, cartridges cost 25 cents each, so every time I fired one I got my investment back twelve times over. I could kill a hundred a day.... That would be $6,000 a month -- or three times what was paid, it seems to me, the President of the United States. Was I not lucky that I discovered this quick and easy way to fortune? I thought I was.","author":"Frank Mayer","tags":["capitalism","hunting","old-west"],"id":5304,"author_id":"Frank+Mayer"},{"text":"Yes!' He says. 'Fear is an excellent motivator. I find that it really brings out the true ingenuity of a creature.","author":"M.D. Elster","tags":["alice-in-wonderland","creature","creatures","fear","fearful","fearfulness","four-kings","game","hunt","hunting","ingenuity","motivator","spades","the-raven-king","wonderland"],"id":12425,"author_id":"M.D.+Elster"},{"text":"It came to him that he had turned away from the buffalo not because of a womanish nausea at blood and stench and spilling gut; it came to him that he had sickened and turned away because of his shock at seeing the buffalo, a few moments before proud and noble and full of the dignity of life, now stark and helpless, a length of inert meat, divested of itself, or his notion of its self, swinging grotesquely, mockingly, before him. It was not itself; or it was not that self that he had imagined it to be. That self was murdered; and in that murder he had felt the destruction of something within him, and he had not been able to face it. So he had turned away.","author":"John Williams","tags":["animals","buffalo","death","hunting","westerns"],"id":27732,"author_id":"John+Williams"},{"text":"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of the gun.","author":"P.G. Wodehouse","tags":["guns","humor","hunting","perspective","shooting"],"id":29237,"author_id":"P.G.+Wodehouse"},{"text":"There are three ways to take down a wild tusklan.The average hunter takes a large-bore weapon with which to shoot the animal. When it works, the method is quick and efficient. But if the first shot fails to hit a vital organ, the tusklan may be upon its attackerbfore a second shot can be aimed and fired.The wise hunter takes a smaller-bore weapon. The method is less likely to produce a first-shot kill, but the second, third, or fourth shot may succeed. However if the bore is to small, none of the shots will penetrate to vital points, and the tusklan will again triumph over its attacker.The subtle hunter takes no visible weapon at all. He instead induces a thousand sting flies to attack the tusklan from all sides. The method is slow, and destructive of the pelt. But in the end, the tusklan is dead. And dies never knowing where the attack came from.","author":"Timothy Zahn","tags":["genius","hunting","star-wars","thrawn"],"id":35038,"author_id":"Timothy+Zahn"},{"text":"That blasted family could never look at a living thing without wanting to make a profit out of it, preferably by killing it.","author":"Halldór Laxness","tags":["capitalism","exploitation","hunting","shooting"],"id":48764,"author_id":"Halld%C3%B3r+Laxness"},{"text":"Some of the most memorable, and least regrettable, nights of my own youth were spent in coon hunting with farmers. There is no denying that these activities contributed to the economy of farm households, but a further fact is that they were pleasures; they were wilderness pleasures, not greatly different from the pleasures pursued by conservationists and wilderness lovers. As I was always aware, my friends the coon hunters were not motivated just by the wish to tree coons and listen to hounds and listen to each other, all of which were sufficiently attractive; they were coon hunters also because they wanted to be afoot in the woods at night. Most of the farmers I have known, and certainly the most interesting ones, have had the capacity to ramble about outdoors for the mere happiness of it, alert to the doings of the creatures, amused by the sight of a fox catching grasshoppers, or by the puzzle of wild tracks in the snow.","author":"Wendell Berry","tags":["farmers","happiness","hunting","leisure","wilderness"],"id":49794,"author_id":"Wendell+Berry"},{"text":"My companions ate the bear. I found I had no appetite.","author":"Rachel Hartman","tags":["food","hunting","nausea"],"id":51574,"author_id":"Rachel+Hartman"},{"text":"You may kill for yourselves, and your mates,and your cubs as they need, and you can;But kill not for pleasure of killing, andSEVEN TIMES NEVER KILL MAN.","author":"Rudyard Kipling","tags":["animals","hunting"],"id":56171,"author_id":"Rudyard+Kipling"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":85,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}