Thursday, October 11, 2012

Hunting Quotes

Teddy Moritz sends two lovely ones from a German hunting site-- her translations I think:

"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?

2 comments:

Retrieverman said...

Germany is one of the few countries in which hunter participation has been on the increase.

http://www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,2335758,00.html

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.

Retrieverman said...

I think the Germans have also done a much better job incorporating "green" politics with hunting than the English-speakers have.

I was attacked on an anti-hunting Facebook page for not being a conservationist-- mainly because I thought it was okay to shoot animals.