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Many books contain stories we not only enjoy but seek to emulate, as well as quotable lines that endure through the generations.

It would be enjoyable to gather a list of favorites in one thread.

Note: Credit for the enclosed picture goes to @Raskolnikov743 and his son.
 
“We don’t inherit the land from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.”. Native American Proverb

“Do what you can, with what you have, where you are.”. Teddy Roosevelt

…the hunter is home from the hills. Requiem by Robert Louis Stevenson.
 
Scripture, great literature (Lonesome Dove for example), Patrick McManus, great movies... soooo many sources from which to select.

Augustus McCrae: It's ain't dyin' I'm talking about, it's living.

Heraclitus: No man steps into the same river twice.

Scripture: If God is for us, who can be against us? Roman's 8:31

Shane Falco: Pain heals, chicks dig scars, glory lasts forever.

Unattributed: Stand up for what's right, even if you're standing alone.

OK... I'll stop. :p
 
The best quote: If a salesman at Rigby, or other high-end maker, said, “Sir, your rifle will be ready in a few weeks, and we are happy to sell it to you at 25% off list.” :)
 
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure... than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much, because they live in a gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat.

- T. Roosevelt
 
Tuco
If you going to shoot shoot don’t talk.

I can’t remember who ( probably my firearms instructor aifforce Johnson)
If a man says he is going to kill you take him at his word and act accordingly.
 
I was going to abridge this to the main lines, but it's just too good in long form. While it sounds manly, I cry every time I hear the cast and crew of this movie and Legends of the Fall praise Bart the bear just how awesome he was. From The Edge...

Did you know that Indian boys used to run up to the bear... and slap him... count coup on him, as a test of manhood?

No, no, Charles. How are WE going to lure him?

Blood. Blood! We'll have to distract him, of course. We'll have to distract him and trap him, but it can be done. Do you believe it, Bob? You believe it?

I don't know, Charles.

Huh?

I don't think it'll work, Charles.

It will work!

No.

It will work. What one man can do, another can do.

You can't kill the bear, Charles. He's... He's ahead of us all the time, it's like he's reading our minds. He's stalking us, for God's sakes! He...

You want to die out here, huh? Well, then die. But I tell you what... I'm not gonna die. No, sirree. I'm not gonna die. No, I'm gonna kill the bear.

Say it, "I'm gonna kill the bear." Say it. "I'm gonna kill the bear." Say it! Say "I'm gonna kill the bear!" Say it!

I'm gonna kill the bear.

Say it again!

I'm gonna kill the bear.

And again!

I'm gonna kill the bear!

Good. What one man can do, another can do.

What one man can do, another can do.

Say it again!

What one man can do, another can do!

And again!

What one man can do... another can do!

Yeah! You're goddamn right. 'Cause today... I'm a-gonna kill the motherfucker.
 
For our African friends, "make a plan...."
 
“A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.” U.S. Constitution, 2nd Amendment.
 
““I don’t care about these people who can split a pea at three hundred yards,” old Phil Percival once remarked. “What I want to know about a man is how good he is on a charging buffalo at six feet.”” Ruark quoting Percival

“There is a simple love of outdoors and of creatures and a hatred for the contrived living of cities, for the claustrophobic connivances of civilization. It is this that drives a man to the vastness of Africa to fulfill some need of basic simplicity in himself.” Ruark again in Horn of the Hunter.

There are others but I’d have to go find them.
 
I, Hatchet Jack, being of sound mind and broke legs, do leaveth my bear rifle to whatever finds it. It is a good rifle that kilt the bear that kilt me. Anyway, I am dead.
 
A sad but true quote made by my mentor, Inspector General Of Forests Yusuf Salauddin Ahmad in 1973:

“Those who have been pushing for the ban on tiger hunting hunting today, will push for a ban on deer hunting tomorrow and a ban on bird hunting the day after".

I wish he was wrong.
 
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