…if you properly respect what you are after, and shoot it cleanly and on the animal’s terrain, if you imprison in your mind all the wonder of the day from sky to smell to breeze to flowers – then you have not merely killed an animal.

[Kit] Carson gave off none of the mountain man's swagger....An army officer once introduced himself to Carson, saying, 'So this is the distinguished Kit Carson who has made so many Indians run.'

Cattle-men hate sheep, because they eat the grass so close that cattle cannot live on the same ground…

It is curious to hear the nonsense that is talked and to see the nonsense that is written about the distances at which game is killed…

“Old E.S. Newman used to say, ‘Horses and cattle cost money; cowboys are cheap.’”

“Does the wind blow this way here all the time?” Asked the ranch visitor in the West.

It is not the critic who counts: not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better.

To me still-hunting elk in the mountains, when they are calling, is one of the most attractive of sports…

All in all, Roosevelt’s interests in arts and letters were almost unique among American chief executives.

I really love this quote, but PLEASE NOTE, it may not be from Rudyard Kipling.

My lovely wife, Frances, suggested that I start a Blog series on quotes that have caught my attention and imagination.