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I read this years ago and was struck by it's simple honesty and accuracy "All things eat and kill to eat, and...all things end." I remember it being used as an admonition to people that were anti-gun & anti-hunting.
I had thought I'd read it in Charles Fergus's Upland Equation book, but when I went back to cite it, I couldn't find it. It might also have been something that Steve Bodio had written.
Anyone?
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I'll take a shot-- Possibly Aldo Leopold?
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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That's as educated a guess as I could have come up with and I'll agree that it certainly is in Leopold's style of thinking and writing.
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Sounds like a good description of pitiless killing in Nature. I'd be leery of using it as a rationale for humans killing for sport. I make no excuses to the antis. It's simply what I do and for the table, too.
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Thanks, Dean. I suppose there is a "search engine" that would possibly find the origin of that phrase-the author and when he said or penned those words. Leopold is a timeless read, like Nash Buckingham, I never tire of re-reading Aldo's writings.
"The field is the touchstone of the man"..
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Serious to the point of not knowing the author's meaning and suggesting it may be a naturalist's description of pitiless killing of the natural world.
But seriously, it's a weak riposte to the antis. Mine usually shuts them up. I tell them what I do and how I feel about what I do and make no apologies for it.
If that's not enough, to respect their feelings, I say think of me and my kind as dinosaurs that will be gone some day and you'll have the world to yourselves!
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I believe this or something very much like it, is in Spanish philosopher Jose' Ortega y Gasset's "MEDITATIONS ON HUNTING". My favorite quote is "One does not hunt in order to kill...one kills in order to have hunted"
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