--- title: "4 Hunting Quotes By Jonathan Safran Foer" description: "4 Hunting quotes by Jonathan Safran Foer. Plus more from Jonathan Safran Foer and more Hunting sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48e/jonathan-safran-foer-136_humans_it-s-rarely-talked-about-but-hunting-for_1952194.png" --- > [It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/it-s-rarely-talked-about-but-hunting-for-sport-is-just-about-as-vile/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48e/jonathan-safran-foer-136_humans_it-s-rarely-talked-about-but-hunting-for_1952194.png) > [If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/if-the-thrill-of-hunting-were-in-the-hunt-or-even-in-the-marksmanship/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/jonathan-safran-foer-136_adventure_if-the-thrill-of-hunting-were-in-the-hun_2413904.png) > [Cruelty...prefers abstraction. Some have tried to resolved this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/cruelty-prefers-abstraction-some-have-tried-to-resolved-this-gap-by/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0c2/jonathan-safran-foer-136_animal_cruelty-prefers-abstraction-some-have-tr_2465922.png) > [Hunting will never feed lots of people; it will always be a hobby.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/hunting-will-never-feed-lots-of-people-it-will-always-be-a-hobby/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/93f/jonathan-safran-foer-136_hobbies_hunting-will-never-feed-lots-of-people-i_3157667.jpg) ## Other authors on Hunting - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b011/author-henry-david-thoreau-41473.jpg) Henry David Thoreau 14 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunting/henry-david-thoreau/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-ted-nugent-89250.jpg) Ted Nugent 13 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunting/ted-nugent/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b022/author-steven-rinella-87530.jpg) Steven Rinella 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunting/steven-rinella/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b010/author-fred-bear-36012.jpg) Fred Bear 12 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunting/fred-bear/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-jose-ortega-y-gasset-53204.jpg) Jose Ortega y Gasset 10 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunting/jose-ortega-y-gasset/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-suzanne-collins-88237.jpg) Suzanne Collins 9 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunting/suzanne-collins/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-erin-hunter-33731.jpg) Erin Hunter 6 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunting/erin-hunter/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b024/author-wayne-pacelle-94658.jpg) Wayne Pacelle 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunting/wayne-pacelle/) - [ ![](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b003/author-aldo-leopold-10632.jpg) Aldo Leopold 5 quotes ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunting/aldo-leopold/) ## More by Jonathan Safran Foer > [This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/this-brings-me-back-to-the-image-of-kafka-standing-before-a-fish-in/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [I try not to remember the life that I didn’t want to lose but lost and have to remember](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/i-try-not-to-remember-the-life-that-i-didn-t-want-to-lose-but-lost/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“I have an aristocratic smile and like to punch people.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/i-have-an-aristocratic-smile-and-like-to-punch-people/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [He removed several pages of death certificates, which were picked up by another breeze and sent into the trees. Some would fall with the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/he-removed-several-pages-of-death-certificates-which-were-picked-up/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [I would have done anything for him. Maybe that was my sickness. We made love in nothing places and turned the lights off. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/i-would-have-done-anything-for-him-maybe-that-was-my-sickness-we-made/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“One day I wandered away from her and hid. I liked the way it felt to have someone look for me, to hear my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/one-day-i-wandered-away-from-her-and-hid-i-liked-the-way-it-felt-to/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [If nothing matters, there's nothing to save.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/if-nothing-matters-there-s-nothing-to-save/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“It was one of the best days of my life, a day during which I lived my life and didn't think about it at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/it-was-one-of-the-best-days-of-my-life-a-day-during-which-i-lived-my/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“The appearance was misleading- human dreams; rubbish heaps abundant yet ephemeral sudden and splendid, only to wilt and perish”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/the-appearance-was-misleading-human-dreams-rubbish-heaps-abundant-yet/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“the entirety of human society and moral progress represents an explicit transcendence of what’s “natural.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/the-entirety-of-human-society-and-moral-progress-represents-an/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“Food is not so much a symbol of freedom as the first requirement of freedom. We eat foods that are native to America on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/food-is-not-so-much-a-symbol-of-freedom-as-the-first-requirement-of/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [“Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I’ve yet to find a credible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/rationally-factory-farming-is-so-obviously-wrong-in-so-many-ways-in/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [Just because you're an atheist, that doesn't mean you wouldn't love for things to have reasons for why they are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/just-because-you-re-an-atheist-that-doesn-t-mean-you-wouldn-t-love/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [Do you think I'm wonderful? she asked him one day as they leaned against the trunk of a petrified maple. No, he said. Why?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/do-you-think-i-m-wonderful-she-asked-him-one-day-as-they-leaned/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) > [My insides don't match up with my outsides. -Do anyone's inside and outsides match up? -I don't know. I'm only me. -Maybe that's what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/my-insides-don-t-match-up-with-my-outsides-do-anyone-s-inside-and/) [Jonathan Safran Foer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-safran-foer/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hunting/jonathan-safran-foer/#itemlist", "name": "4 Hunting Quotes By Jonathan Safran Foer", "numberOfItems": 4, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonathan Safran Foer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/it-s-rarely-talked-about-but-hunting-for-sport-is-just-about-as-vile/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48e/jonathan-safran-foer-136_humans_it-s-rarely-talked-about-but-hunting-for_1952194.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48e/jonathan-safran-foer-136_humans_it-s-rarely-talked-about-but-hunting-for_1952194.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/48e/jonathan-safran-foer-136_humans_it-s-rarely-talked-about-but-hunting-for_1952194.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.” — Jonathan Safran Foer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 2, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonathan Safran Foer" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-safran-foer/if-the-thrill-of-hunting-were-in-the-hunt-or-even-in-the-marksmanship/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/jonathan-safran-foer-136_adventure_if-the-thrill-of-hunting-were-in-the-hun_2413904.png", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/jonathan-safran-foer-136_adventure_if-the-thrill-of-hunting-were-in-the-hun_2413904.png", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/446/jonathan-safran-foer-136_adventure_if-the-thrill-of-hunting-were-in-the-hun_2413904.png", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“If the thrill of hunting were in the hunt, or even in the marksmanship, a camera would do just as well.” — Jonathan Safran Foer", "creditText": "SMS4Smile Quotes", "creator": { "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/#organization" } } } }, { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 3, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Cruelty...prefers abstraction. 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