"Who denies that love and hunting are related passions, has never hunted."
She likes this one even better:
"Who never hunted,
and never loved,
never sought the scent of flowers,
never trembled at the sound of music,
is not a man but a donkey."
Interesting how there is more of this kind of stuff on the Continent-- a kind of English Puritanism perhaps?
Germany is one of the few countries in which hunter participation has been on the increase.
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One of the surnames in my close pedigree is Jaeger. I can't type the a with umlaut, but you know what that word means.
I think the Germans have also done a much better job incorporating "green" politics with hunting than the English-speakers have.
ReplyDeleteI was attacked on an anti-hunting Facebook page for not being a conservationist-- mainly because I thought it was okay to shoot animals.