Spent a couple of days hunting in the woods this weekend, with one long-time friend that has never had the opportunity to harvest an animal. I found this quote Aldo Leopold quote today, and it made me realize what hunting and shooting that hog awoke in him: A man may not care for golf and still be human, but the man who does not like to see, hunt, photograph or otherwise outwit birds or animals is hardly normal. He is supercivilized, and I for one do not know how to deal with him. Babes do not tremble when they are shown their first golf ball, but I should not like to own the boy whose hair does not lift his hat when he sees his first deer. We are dealing with something that lies very deep. Some can live without opportunity for the exercise and control of the hunting instinct, just as I suppose some can live without work, play, love, business, or other vital adventure. But in these days we regard such deprivations as unsocial. Opportunity for exercise of all the normal instincts has become to be regarded more and more as an inalienable right. The men who are destroying our wildlife are alienating one of these rights, and doing a thorough job of it. More than that, they are doing a permanent job of it. When the last corner lot is covered with tenements we can still make a playground by tearing them down, but when the last antelope goes by the board, not all the playground associations in Christendom can do aught to replace the loss.
Posted on: Tue, 29 Apr 2014 18:10:49 +0000
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