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l uo t e s O Apart from his courage and trickiness in the field, the bobwhite has the power of inspiring nostalgia in the evening, when the fire snaps and hisses and the bourbon melds gently with the branch water. He tastes as good on the plate as he looks in the field, and no bird of paradise was ever handsomer to the hunter than this little gentleman's gentleman. He often ennobles the man who shoots him, a trick that has not yet been perfected by humans in relationship to each other. Robert Ruark, The Brave Quail, Field & Stream, December, 1951 Reader Favorites We who choose to surround ourselves with lives Even more temporary than our own Live within a fragile circle, easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, We still would live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, Never fully understanding the necessary plan. Irving Townsend, Separate Lifetimes, 1992 Submitted by Dr. Ted C. Jennings in honor of Blue, who appeared in the story "Naming Blue," published in Sporting Classics, and who died in February, 2013. He remembered traveling along the Arkansas before that in the fall of the year and the buffalo as thick as cattle at a roundup – for 200 miles or more nothing but buffalo, till it seemed no end to them. Dead buffalo floating in the little eddies or quicksand along the bank, and the live ones making a racket you could hear for miles, bulls fighting among themselves and chasing the cows and the cows and calves bawling. But in '74 they were gone . . . Milton Lott, The Last Hunt, 1954 Submitted by Bernard T. Walton The lazy do not roast any game, but the diligent feed on the riches of the hunt. Proverbs 12 vs. 27 Submitted by Jon Osborn II Fantasy, Maryland A shaft of sunlight through a golden oak, a cock pheasant so full of life he's bragging at the world, a preening mallard hen parading a string of ducklings as if they were diamonds, the sift of snow that suddenly quiets the universe – anxious for the light to be done. This is the wealth of the world. And we are rich. Gene Hill, A Hunter's Fireside Book, 1972 I'd rather look bad doing something hard than look good doing something easy. Tom Kelly, Tenth Legion, 2006 Submitted by Bob Whitehead Cloverdale, California Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has ever improved on that statement. John Gierach, Flyfishing the High Country, 2004 Submitted by David Allegrucci Buckeye, Arizona When we visit the few remaining scraps of wilderness where bears roam free, we can still feel an instinctive fear. How precious that feeling is. Nick Jans, The Grizzly Maze, 2005 Submitted by Kevin Kennedy Edge wood, Washington Send us your favorite quotes from sporting literature and receive one free gift subscription for every quote that is published. Include the author, title of book and date of publication. Send to: Quotes, Sporting Classics, PO Box 23707, Columbia, SC 29224 S P O R T I N G C 240 L A S S I C S