“A duck call in the hands of the unskilled is one of conservation’s greatest assets.”.“The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions of hope.”.“My biggest fear is that when I’m dead and gone, my wife will try to sell my fishing gear for what I said I paid for it.”.“All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish.”.“People never lie so much as after a hunt, during a war, or before an election.”.Only an extraordinary person would purposefully risk being outsmarted by a creature often less than twelve inches long, over and over again. It is all of life’s lessons in the space of a morning. “People who fish know that life is a morality play in which you are sometimes the victor, sometimes vanquished.“Men go shopping just as men go out fishing or hunting, to see how large a fish may be caught with the smallest hook.”.“The true source of enjoyment in field sports is to be found in the exertion of one’s own faculties, and especially in such a carriage of one’s self as to be superior to sagacity and caution to the most wary and sharp-sighted of creatures.”.“When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God.”.I take that life if I can, with regret as well as joy, and with the sure knowledge that nature’s way of fang and claw and starvation are a far crueler fate than I bestow.” I see the animal not only as a target, but as a living creature with more freedom than I will ever have. “I have always tempered my killing with respect for the game pursued.“There’s more fun in hunting with the handicap of the bow than there is in hunting with the sureness of the gun.”.It will cleanse your soul and make you a better person.” “Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience.“A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.”.“It is thus enjoying Nature in her undisturbed simplicity, before any blemish of man has marred the naturalness in all her varied phases, and moods, and times, that makes the wilderness pastime so fascinating.”.“The forest talks but a good hunter only hears it by learning its language.”. Cares I knew not, and cared naught about them.” “Hunting, fishing, drawing, and music occupied my every moment.“In my deepest troubles, I frequently would wrench myself from the persons around me and retire to some secluded part of our noble forests.”.We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.” We need a refuge even though we many never need to set foot in it. “We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it.May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.” “May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.“Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.”.Here are some of the best quotes on the outdoors - hiking, fishing, hunting, conservation, the wilderness and everything in between. From poet Henry David Thoreau to novelist Jack London, from presidents Chester Arthur to Jimmy Carter, the great outdoors inspires nearly everyone.
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