Elizabeth Marshall Thomas 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 have no use for people who hunt for what they call sport.

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.

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.

We're the only species who hunts for sport.

I did not actually run down a deer for 'Tammy,' I promise.

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

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.

A man who risks his life in shooting big game in order to secure good specimens for natural history collections, or to rid a district of a man-eater or other dangerous neighbor, is a sportsman in the true sense.

I'm not a hunter.

I don't hunt big African game anymore.

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.

In the 1970s, Safari Club International asked the federal government to approve its import of 1,125 not-yet-killed trophies of 40 endangered species, including gorillas, orangutans and tigers, according to the Humane Society of the United States.

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

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

I don't want to see crocs end up as boots, bags and belts. We're killing and consuming our wildlife icons.

Hunted for sport by the rich, then driven from large tracts of its natural habitat by agricultural and housing development, the giant panda deserves better than to be scrubbed from conservation's ledger books through false accounting.

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

In Yellowstone National Park, there are more 'do not feed the animals' signs than there are animals you might wish to feed.

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

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.

The first crocodile I ever caught was at nine years of age, and it was a rescue.