Michael Pollan Quotes

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

I am in no way supportive of hunting for trophies or sport - would never do it and don't like it that others do. But if you kill it, then eat it, it's fine.

There was never any question about the morality of hunting, but neither was there any acceptance of killing for the sake of a trophy.

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

We're the only species who hunts for sport.

I'm not perfect and I know it. I've done all sorts of things that are frowned upon these days - big-game hunting, fishing. I still enjoy fishing but I don't kill warm-blooded animals any more - I make an exception with birds sometimes.

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.

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

In some countries a hunting parson is no uncommon sight. Such a one might make a good shepherd's dog, but is far from being the Good Shepherd.

I grew up around hunters. I love guns, bows, arrows, compasses and binoculars. I don't do any of that stuff, I just like the stuff. I shot one animal, in my life, and I didn't like it. If I had to skin an animal to eat it, I'd probably eat vegetables.

I don't shoot anything. I could never kill an animal. My dad does all the hunting, and he eats everything that he kills.

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.

Hunting is the last perfect thing.

I am sort of anti-hunting. I don't put down what anyone wants to do, but it seems to me that killing a creature for fun is not a progressive idea.

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

If I shoot it, I'm gonna eat it.

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

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

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

They might in the future more than ever before engage in hunting beavers.

I love things made out of animals. It's just so funny to think of someone saying, 'I need a letter opener. I guess I'll have to kill a deer.

I grew up on a farm, so there were rifles around. Every March around springtime, there's a big hunt that goes on, and you go out and hunt down all the pheasants. I actually never shot the pheasants; I'm not a big fan of killing animals myself.

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.

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.