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.

 

[Cucuy]

One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted. If one were to present the sportsman with the death of the animal as a gift he would refuse it. What he is after is having to win it, to conquer the surly brute through his own effort and skill with all the extras that this carries with it: the immersion in the countryside, the healthfulness of the exercise, the distraction from his job.

Meditations on Hunting, José Ortega y Gasset

 

[Rare Breed]

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?

You could easily argue it fits many things but my favorite of all time even beyond my favorite Winston Churchill is Teddy Roosevelt’s “man in the arena.”. If you have never read this I encourage you to read it. When people who have never taken on DG in Africa but want to opinioned and/or criticize always remember theirs is the worst kind of hell for they know not victory or defeat…it is only the man in the arena of life who sweats and bleeds daring greatly who in the end whether victorious or defeated is satisfied(my interpretation)

 

[bakerb]

I have never read that. I’ve got a trip coming, I’ll try to find in Kindle to read on the plane

 

[Firebird]

If you like honey badgers-get on YouTube and check out the video about “Stoffel the honey badger escape artist.” -that will get you close. Amazing little creatures!