It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and develops a certain r…

- Archibald Rutledge

Some men are mere hunters; others are turkey hunters.

- Archibald Rutledge

Familiarity with nature never breeds contempt. The more one learns, the more one expects surprises, and the more one becomes aware of the inscrutable.

- Archibald Rutledge

It is my fixed conviction that if a parent can give his children a passionate and wholesome devotion to the outdoors, the fact that he cannot leave e…

- Archibald Rutledge

You should remember that though another may have more money, beauty, and brains than you, when it comes to the rarer spiritual values such as charity…

- Archibald Rutledge

The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon.

- Archibald Rutledge

It takes solitude under the stars, for us to be reminded of our eternal origin and our far destiny.

- Archibald Rutledge

If there is anything in life in which I take a pardonable pride, it is my friendship for certain old woodsmen and hunters; obscure men, as far as the…

- Archibald Rutledge