Men do not understand books until they have a certain amount of life, or at any rate no man understands a deep book, until he has seen and lived at least part of its contents.

- Ezra Pound

The hunter’s horn sounds early for some, later for others. For some unfortunates, poisoned by city sidewalks and sentenced to a cement jungle more horrifying than anything to be found in Tanganyika, the horn of the hunter never winds at all. But deep in the guts of most men is buried the involuntary response to the hunter’s horn, a prickle of the nape hairs, an acceleration of the pulse, an atavistic memory of this fathers, who killed first with stone, and then with club, and then with spear, and then with bow, and then with gun, and finally with formulae.

- Robert C. Ruark

The Horn of the Hunter

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not the fish they are after.

- Henry David Thoreau