You can learn more about hunting deer with a bow and arrow in a week than a gun hunter will learn in his entire life

When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God.

The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind

Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make your a better person.

I come home with an honestly earned feeling that something good has taken place. It makes no difference whether I got anything; it has to do with how the day was spent.

If you are not working to protect hunting, then you are working to destroy it.

If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together.

It is no coincidence that the American hunter is the most patriotic of all our citizens. Who cares more for this land's beauties than he?

Nothing clears a troubled mind better than shooting a bow.

A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.

I hunt deer because I love the entire process; the preparation, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woods lore against the finely honed instincts of these creatures.

Life's nycer when it's Naughtie!

Writing is a way of life.

Only by focusing on God can we reach our goal.

But unshed tears can turn rancid. So can memory. So can biting your tongue. My bad nights were beginning. I couldn't sleep.

No bird soars too high if he soars on his own wings.

To many people virtue consists chiefly in repenting faults, not in avoiding them.

Maggie Shipstead's prose is so graceful and muscular, so dazzling, so sure-handed and fearless, that at times I had to remind myself to breathe. Astonish Me is a treasure of small surprises.

Remote, unfriended, melancholy, slow, Or by the lazy Scheld or wandering Po.

Well, you know, like, I don't really give a f**k what the general public think.

Nuclear war would really set back cable.