Douglass North Quotes

I'm an outdoor nut. If I'm not working, I'm on a tractor on my farm, hunting, fishing or climbing a mountain.

I choose to hunt, and I choose to fish. Everything I've done has been totally legal.

I grew up in Texas in a family that fished and hunted, so I've shot guns as a kid.

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

Daddy had a farm - cows, pigs, OK, a big garden, OK? We did live off the land, and then we would supplement all that with whatever we could kill or catch. Whether we'd kill squirrels, deer, duck, or caught catfish or brim, that was what went on the table.

How is it macho that I like to hunt and fish? I've been doing it since I was four.

I hunt and fish, and I don't fly on Lear jets, and I don't smoke Cuban cigars.

As an avid hunter and outdoorsman, I am blessed to call the bank of the great Yellowstone River outside Glendive my home.

I love the outdoors. I love getting to hunt and fish and work on the land and ride our horses.

When I was a kid, my step dad started this business and would go out and get lost cows and stuff. He was part-time truck driver, farmer and cowboy. He taught me how to ride from an early age.

My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship.

I was just different. When the other kids gravitated to football or basketball, I went fishing and skating. I was into trapping animals, pheasants and squirrels. Not only was I trapper, I was a taxidermist.

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

I live on a ranch that's larger than Manhattan. That's a weird circumstance.

Three days a week and I'm home at the ranch in Fallbrook with my avocados.

I love to ride horses, hike in the woods with Juliette and appraise Longhorns.

I live in the country. I'm a bird-watcher, an oyster-raiser. You know, I'll do anything that - raise dogs for the blind as a volunteer.

I'm a real big country boy.

When I was younger, my family would go camping and fishing on our ranches. My dad loves being around all kinds of animals. He's the one who got me to be a really big animal lover.

I'm big into fishing, but I've never been much of a hunter. I never was really raised around it a whole lot, so I never got a chance to do it a whole lot.

I was a kid that grew up in the South and was always outdoors fishing and hunting and, you know, swimming in the pool during the summer.

If you live in the countryside, you understand that hunting isn't just for toffs. It's for the farmers. It's for everyone's enjoyment.

Three acres and a cow.

I grew up hunting and fishing. I've always been into archery. I've always been into cars... In my family, that was just stuff we did. That's just the way it was.

Other than fishing and a little bird-hunting, all I do is write.