Accepting Quote by Jose Ortega y Gasset

A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct

— Aldo Leopold

“To seek out the disciplined and skilled ways of the hunter is the only true honour we may rightfully claim, and to seek the…

— Théun Mares

A minimal level of sportsman ethics afield is mandated by written law. Beyond that, say, when an action is legal but ethically questionable, or…

— David Petersen

I am a hunter. Not merely 'a person who hunts', but someone to whom this ancient, natural and honorable activity is an essential and…

— David Petersen

“For all the virtues we profess, there is a savagery dormant in us waiting only for our fellow man to blink. It is easy…

— Tobias Wade

“A hunter is an exceptionally disciplined man, for the parameters of his livelihood are precise.”

— Théun Mares

“The hunter does not plunder his world – he takes from it only what he truly needs. In this way the hunter ensures that…

— Théun Mares

When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that…

— Fred Bear

Solitude is an essential quality of wilderness.

— Robert Lucas, Jr

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

He who desires solitude is either an animal or a god.

— Francis Bacon

We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one can never…

— Jose Ortega y Gasset