"In a civilized and cultivated country wild animals only continue to exist at all when preserved by sportsmen. the excellent people who protest against all hunting, and consider sportsmen as enemies of wild life, are ignorant of the fact that in reality the genuine sportsman is by all odds the most important factor in keeping the larger and more valuable wild creatures from total extermination."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

#Country Quotes #Animal Quotes #Reality Quotes

“Some people are aware of everything that is going on everywhere at every moment in their lives.”
“I don't want power. I just object to idiots having power over me.”

Source : Lois McMaster Bujold (1999). “Cordelia's Honor”, p.360, Baen Books
“The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of creation. You are not discovering yourself, but creating yourself anew. Seek therefore, not to find out Who You Are, but seek to determine Who You Want to Be.”
“Praises for our past triumphs are as feathers to a dead bird.”
“If Mike Tyson is in your courtroom and you don't send him to jail, it's an injustice. Everyone knows he's a bad guy. So if he is in your courtroom, he should go to jail.”
“Darwin and his successors have railed against the fallacy of confusing the current utility of a trait with the reason the trait evolved. For example, Darwin argued that skull sutures in mammals did not evolve because they facilitate live birth; the sutures were in place well before live birth evolved. Checking the chronological order in which different traits evolved in a lineage is one way to test an adaptive hypothesis; the fact of common ancestry is what makes that checking possible.”
“The worst letters come from retired high school English teachers. They will literally take a book and pick it to pieces and send me 14 pages of notes.”
“a victor's peace is usually vindictive and stirs up a passion for revenge a generation or so later.”

Source : Muriel Lester (1937). “It Occurred to Me”

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