The best part of hunting and fishing was the thinking about going and the talking about it after you got back.
The charm of hunting is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.
A hunt based only on the trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.
When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity.