Samuel de Champlain Quotes

We're the only species who hunts for sport.

Trophy hunters are not Everyman. These world-traveling endangered-species shooters are a far cry from the hunters who spend weekends in the American outback near their suburban or rural homes.

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

This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

I'm not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous.

The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.

I've been out all over the world tranquilizing animals.

I don't believe you need high capacity magazines to go hunt. If you have to use 100 rounds to shoot a deer, you're in trouble.

I don't oppose hunting in any way, shape or form. If that's what you enjoy doing, you are free to do it.

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.

I don't hunt big African game anymore.

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

As between the skulking and furtive poacher, who hunts for the sake of meat, and the honest gentleman shooter, who kills for the pleasure of sport, I find the former a higher type of humanity.

Deerstalking would be a very fine sport if only the deer had guns.

Why would you want to go all the way to Africa and shoot a giraffe? I don't think you can eat him. I only shoot stuff I can eat.

The seal hunt has made me ashamed to be a Canadian.

[It is forbidden to] shoot off a gun on any unnecessary occasion except [at] an Indian or a wolf.

Everyone has a different opinion; every country has a different way of doing things. But I do believe that we need a regulatory body so that everyone who owns or manages wildlife is subject to inspection and rated on how well they look after the animals and how the communities benefit.

Anyone who thinks hunters are just 'bloodthirsty morons' hasn't looked into hunting. If you wait through long, cold hours in the November woods with a bow in your hands hoping a buck will show, or if you spend days walking in the African bush trailing Cape buffalo while listening to lions roar, you're sure to learn hunting isn't about killing.

For me, hunting is a natural fact rather than a choice.

Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only when they are on the verge of extinction.

The truth is that some of Mississippi's greatest advocates for conservation and habitat protection are the sportsmen and hunters. Our state's beautiful and abundant natural lands are enhanced, protected and paid for in large part by those who enjoy hunting.

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

I'm a big time hunter. I grew up my whole life hunting and providing meat for my family.