Robert Baden-Powell Quotes

I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.

I don't hunt big African game anymore.

A sportsman is a man who every now and then, simply has to get out and kill something.

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman.

I have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport.

Big game hunters and the hunting industry in South Africa know a lot of people regard what they do as terrible, and the media have tended not to do them any favours. So it was an uphill struggle to win trust from the people and to get into the world.

Hunting is alive and well, and so it should be.

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than that of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact..

I'm not a hunter.

There's obviously a lot of controversy around the issue of hunting as there is around gambling, and I like these stories where there is a moral dimension, stories that force you to think about your prejudices about a subject and explore the extent to which they are justified.

With all due respect to the nation's fish and game departments, more deer die because people hunt them than because people feed them.

I spent a lot of my life - 20 years of it - in war, training army trackers and commanding a tracker unit, and then in the Game Department, tracking lions and elephants and poachers. So I've spent literally thousands of hours tracking people or animals, and training others to do it.

We ought to ban hunting, I suggest, if there isn't a purpose other than sport and fun. That should be against the law. It's time now.

The Mexican gray wolves are actually responsible for the spark of legendary environmentalists Aldo Leopold and Ernest Seton. In both cases, the men found their lives and souls forever changed after they killed Mexican gray wolves.

We're the only species who hunts for sport.

In my perfect world, we would establish perhaps four national zoos of unimpeachable quality and close the rest of them.

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

Killing a stag is like killing a child.

I enjoy slaughtering beasts, and I think of my relatives constantly.

The poachers were using heavy weapons. It was a real war. I realize this is what I wanted to do.

I want to get his views, and we might talk on problems over the carcass of a deer.

I'm keen to get into trophy hunting, no animal in particular, but a big safari in Africa would be great.

Hunting really divides people in Britain. We keep pets, and we name our animals, but we're not too worried about industrial hunting practices.