Into the Thorns—honey badger quote

[bakerb]

First off, I have to highly recommend Wayne Grants books “Drums of the Morning” and “Into the Thorns”. I had read the first edition of into the thorns, and am now reading the newer edition and really liking it. I must have missed it in the first edition, but so far my favorite quote, a la Ruark:

“If an animal could have tattoos, the honey badger would sport them. His biceps would have MOM and an anchor on them and his knuckles would say LOVE and HATE. He is the powerful, Cockney dockworker”.

Does any one else have favorite quotes about our favorite pastime?

 

[franzfmdavis]

“But since you must kill to eat, and rob the newly born of its mother’s milk to quench your thirst, let it then be an act of worship.
And let your board stand an altar on which the pure and the innocent of forest and plain are sacrificed for that which is purer and still more innocent in man.
When you kill a beast say to him in your heart,
‘By the same power that slays you, I too am slain; and I too shall be consumed.
For the law that delivered you into my hand shall deliver me into a mightier hand.
Your blood and my blood is naught but the sap that feeds the tree of heaven.’”

From: The Prophet, Khalil Gibran (1923)

 

[Sideshow]

Not a quote but the title of a NZ book by Newton McConochie “You Will Learn No Harm From The Hills”

 

[Philip Glass]

First off, I have to highly recommend Wayne Grants books “Drums of the Morning” and “Into the Thorns”. I had read the first edition of into the thorns, and am now reading the newer edition and really liking it. I must have missed it in the first edition, but so far my favorite quote, a la Ruark:

“If an animal could have tattoos, the honey badger would sport them. His biceps would have MOM and an anchor on them and his knuckles would say LOVE and HATE. He is the powerful, Cockney dockworker”.

Does any one else have favorite quotes about our favorite pastime?

I have and recommend both of those books.

 

[TheGrayRider]

"The sight of danger is less hideous than the thought of it." Osbourne Russell, Journal of a Trapper. 1839.