We have not reached ethical perfection in hunting. One never achieves perfection in anything, and perhaps it exists precisely so that one can never achieve it. Its purpose is to orient our conduct and to allow us to measure the progress accomplished. In this sense, the advancement achieved in the ethics of hunting is undeniable.

I am I plus my surroundings; and if I do not preserve the latter, I do not preserve myself.

Man has to live with the body and soul which have fallen to him by chance.

The truth is that no horizon is especially interesting by itself, by virtue of its peculiar content, and that any horizon, wide or narrow, brilliant or dull, varied or monotonous, may possess an interest of its own which merely requires a vital adjustment to be discovered.

Tell me to what you pay attention and I will tell you who you are.

Romantic poses aside, let us recognize that "falling in love"...is an inferior state of mind, a form of transitory imbecility.

The hunter is the alert man. But this itself-life as complete alertness-is the attitude in which the animal exists in the jungle.