40 Hunting Quotes to Make You Want to Head Outdoors (2021)

The following hunting quotes do a good job of showing the passion and appreciation that hunters have for the sport and the animal.

Are you ready to head out in nature?

True hunters and outdoorsmen love getting out in nature. They are passionate about nature and wildlife.

Those that aren’t hunters often think it’s just about killing the animal, but as these quotes explain, true hunters have respect for the animal and a focus on following the laws and helping to control the population.

They take what they are doing seriously while looking forward to being outdoors with a chance to connect with nature.

There are many reasons why hunters enjoy and invest time and money into what they do.

Hunting quotes about the outdoors

1. “Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make you a better person.” – Fred Bear

2. “A duck call in the hands of the unskilled is one of the conservation’s greatest assets.” – Nash Buckingham

3. “Not all those who wander are lost.” – J.R.R. Tolkien

4. “A gun is like a woman, son — it’s all how you hold her.” – Rhett Atkins

Quotes about hunting techniques

5. “You must not only aim right but draw the bow with all your might.” – Henry David Thoreau

6. “Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.”— Ted Nugent

7. “If we act like prey, they’ll act like predators”― Alyxandra Harvey

8. “The hunting partnership between man and dog developed thousands of years ago and from it came a deep bond of affection. I suspect it was the dog’s idea.” – Aaron Fraser

9. “You not only are hunted by others, you unknowingly hunt yourself.”― Dejan Stojanovic

10. “When done under the rules of good sportsmanship duck hunting is a culmination of art, skill, and scientific endeavor. It is also an act of love, for who loves the birds more than the hunter?” – Bob Hinnan

11. “If there is a sacred moment in the ethical pursuit of game, it is the moment you release the arrow or touch off the fatal shot.” – Jim Posewitz

12. “When he was young, I told Dale Jr. that hunting and racing are a lot alike. Holding that steering wheel and holding that rifle both mean you better be responsible.” — Dale Earnhardt

13. “You know, if you need 100 rounds to kill a deer, maybe hunting isn’t your sport.” – Elayne Boosler

14. “A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.” – Fred Bear

Hunting quotes about wildlife

15. “Wildlife and its habitat cannot speak, so we must and we will.” – Theodore Roosevelt 

16. “The truth is… I’m always saddened when I kill an animal. It’s not remorse I feel, I know why I’m a hunter. It’s out of respect.” – Donnie Vincent

17. “A lioness will use all of her strength even when hunting a rabbit.”― Kazuki Nakashima

18. “Lions are neither predators nor killers. They just go for hunting like kings; because they are the kings!”― Munia Khan

19. “You might as well learn that a man who catches fish or shoots game has got to make it fit to eat before he sleeps. Otherwise it’s all a waste and a sin to take it if you can’t use it.” — Robert Ruark

20. “I will always look for what my eyes cain’t see.”― Jessica Marie Baumgartner

 21. “A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.” – John James Audubon

22. “To track prey, you must first know it as you would a brother.”― Michelle Paver

Hunting quotes about the excitement it brings

23. “Don’t get much better than fall. Bring on the camo, ammo, ducks, and bucks.” – Earl Dibbles, Jr. 

24. “’The best thing about hunting and fishing,’ the Old Man said, ‘is that you don’t have to actually do it to enjoy it. You can go to bed every night thinking about how much fun you had twenty years ago, and it all comes back clear as moonlight.’” — Robert Ruark

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25. “If some animals are good at hunting and others are suitable for hunting, then the gods must clearly smile on hunting.” – Aristotle

26. “When a hunter is in a treestand with moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God.” – Fred Bear

Hunting quotes on why people love the sport

27. “Nothing clears a troubled mind like shooting a bow.” – Fred Bear

28. “The week leading into spring marks the start of the hunt.”― A.D. Aliwat

29. “I’m an outdoors girl – I like to go fishing, riding four-wheelers and hunting.” – Miranda Lambert
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30. “Perhaps I should not have been a fisherman, he thought. But that was the thing that I was born for.” — Ernest Hemingway

31. “If you are not working to protect hunting, then you are working to destroy it.” – Fred Bear

More hunting quotes

32. “You can see the true heart of a man when you’re out in the woods with a weapon.” – Jase Robertson

33. “A peculiar virtue in wildlife ethics is that the hunter ordinarily has no gallery to applaud or disapprove of his conduct. Whatever his acts, they are dictated by his own conscience, rather than that of onlookers. It is difficult to exaggerate the importance of this fact.” – Aldo Leopold

34. “I never knew a man that hunted quail that didn’t come out of it a little politer by comparison.” — Robert Ruark

35. “I am hunting you down with your research techniques.”― Steven Magee

36. “I don’t always tell people where I hunt, but when I do, it’s a lie.” – Dos Equis

37. “Vegetarians are cool. All I eat are vegetarians — except for the occasional mountain lion steak.” — Ted Nugent
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38. “The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.” — Sam Snead

39. “The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind.” – Fred Bear

40. “My biggest fear is that when I die, my wife will sell my hunting gear for what I said I paid for it.” – Unknown

Hunting quotes that will make you want to get outside

41. “…hunting and fishing makes you fall in love with the natural world. This is why hunters so often give back by contributing to conservation.”  – Donald Trump, Jr

42. “For people who grew up hunting, especially war veterans, shooting often settled the mind. It was something that required full concentration, and therefore took you away from your troubles, at least for a short time.”  – Tara Kyle

43. “I enjoy being with my family and hunting with my children.”  – Jerry Jones

44. “I am a country girl. Fishing, hunting, hog hunting.”  – Brittney Griner

45. “Hunting is part of a cycle of life that repeats.”  – Roberto Baggio

46. “I’m just a southern boy who likes to go mudding in my Jeep, quail hunting, and skeet shooting.”  – Will Grier

47. “I actually hated hunting the first time I went when I was a kid. My dad took us deer hunting. We sat there for 30 minutes, and I felt like I was losing my mind. But in college, I fell in love with it. Football became a full-time job, and I needed an escape. I needed something that would mellow me out.”  – Carson Wentz

48. “Hunting is religion for me.”  – Tom Brokaw

49. “While my dad loved hunting and fishing, he didn’t romanticize them. He was filling the freezer, not intellectualizing some caveman impulse or proving his worth as a real man.”  – Steve Albini

50. “I ran around with the other youngsters, hunting, fishing and raising tadpoles and all the rest.” – DeForest Kelley

Which of these hunting quotes inspired you to head out in nature

Reading through the quotes about hunting and nature can be just what you need to want to head outdoors and reconnect with nature.

The woods are peaceful and tranquil and allow hunters the chance to step away from the busyness of modern living. 

Hunting allows people to help control the animal population to keep animals from suffering through harsh winters and scarce food. 

Hunting is an age-old hobby that people have continued to enjoy and participate in year after year.

If you are feeling disconnected from nature, one way to change that is to get back into the woods and see it for yourself.

Which of these hunting quotes and sayings resonated with you best? Do you have any other favorite quotes to add? Let us know in the comment section below.