“Hunts differ in flavor, but the reasons are subtle. The sweetest hunts are stolen. To steal a hunt, either go far into the wilderness where no one has been, or else find some undiscovered place under everybody’s nose.”

“October: Smoky Gold”, p. 55.
A Sand County Almanac, 1949, "August: The Green Pasture," "September: The Choral Copse," "October: Smoky Gold," and "October: Red Lanterns"

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American writer and scientist 1887–1948

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“Hunting for sport is an improvement over hunting for food, in that there has been added to the test of skill and ethical code, which the hunter formulates for himself, and must live up to without the moral support of bystanders.”

Aldo Leopold (1887–1948) American writer and scientist

Source: 1930s, Game Management, 1933, Chapter XVI, "Game Economics and Esthetics", p. 391.

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