Wilbur Smith Quotes

Why would you want to go all the way to Africa and shoot a giraffe? I don't think you can eat him. I only shoot stuff I can eat.

I gave up hunting a long time ago.

Hunting really divides people in Britain. We keep pets, and we name our animals, but we're not too worried about industrial hunting practices.

Trophy hunters are not Everyman. These world-traveling endangered-species shooters are a far cry from the hunters who spend weekends in the American outback near their suburban or rural homes.

This, for many people, is what's most offensive about hunting—to some, disgusting: that it encourages, or allows, us not only to kill but to take a certain pleasure in killing

For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.

I am a very good shot. I have hunted for every kind of animal. But I would never kill an animal during mating season.

I'm not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous.

I do hunt, and I do fish, and I don't apologize to anybody for hunting and fishing.

We're the only species who hunts for sport.

It's rarely talked about, but hunting for sport is just about as vile as we humans get.

Killing a stag is like killing a child.

I know that Daddy had an important job. He was working to change the world so everyone would love wildlife like he did. He built a hospital to help animals, and he bought lots of land to give animals a safe place to live.

You see I'm against hunting, in fact I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox.

It's so fantastic that Prince William has championed African wildlife. He's putting his back into it - and one thing the royal family is brilliant at is getting people to cough up.

I just can't remember a time when I wasn't involved with animals and wildlife.

I'm not a hunter.

I don't hunt big African game anymore.

In the 1970s, Safari Club International asked the federal government to approve its import of 1,125 not-yet-killed trophies of 40 endangered species, including gorillas, orangutans and tigers, according to the Humane Society of the United States.

Take a picture not a trophy This is how real men shoot animals

Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

I play a bad boy on television, but in real life I have a passion for nature and nature conservancy, specifically bird rehabilitation.

With Dad, he was the ultimate wildlife warrior, and we admired him more than anything.

Hunting is not a sport. In a sport, both sides should know they're in the game.

There is something about seeing rhinos and lions running free that excites you. It's not that you feel afraid; it's more like you're liberated by seeing them.