Fred Bear Quotes

When a hunter is in a tree stand with high moral values and with the proper hunting ethics and richer for the experience, that hunter is 20 feet closer to God.

The history of the bow and arrow is the history of mankind

Immerse yourself in the outdoor experience. It will cleanse your soul and make your a better person.

I come home with an honestly earned feeling that something good has taken place. It makes no difference whether I got anything; it has to do with how the day was spent.

If you are not working to protect hunting, then you are working to destroy it.

If you consider an unsuccessful hunt to be a waste of time, then the true meaning of the chase eludes you all together.

It is no coincidence that the American hunter is the most patriotic of all our citizens. Who cares more for this land's beauties than he?

You can learn more about hunting deer with a bow and arrow in a week than a gun hunter will learn in his entire life

Nothing clears a troubled mind better than shooting a bow.

A hunt based only on trophies taken falls far short of what the ultimate goal should be.

I hunt deer because I love the entire process; the preparation, the excitement, and sustained suspense of trying to match my woods lore against the finely honed instincts of these creatures.

I feel like one of God's chosen people, having had the opportunity to share, with many fine companions, these varied and lovely realms of our natural world.

There's more fun in hunting with the handicap of the bow than there is in hunting with the sureness of the gun.

The very remoteness kindles the imagination of the adventurous hunter. From the top of any mountain the challenge extends far and wide, until the mountains meet the sky.

A downed animal is most certainly the object of a hunting trip, but it becomes an anticlimax when compared to the many other pleasures of the hunt.