Kinds of Hunting

African Lion

●  "Without any ifs ands or buts, the lion is the most formidable animal on Earth when pitted against man, even tough the man be well armed.

"[O]nce a lion is in full charge towards you, there is a good chance he is going to be on top of you, however much you fancy yourself as a shot. Many better men than you or me have had that point forcibly demonstrated to them.

"Then came the magic sound of strong teeth treating at the kill. How the adrenaline pours into your system at a moment like this."

- P.H. Tony Dyer

●  "One feels that lions are all that one lives for."

●  "I have seen the royal lion, before sunrise, below a waning moon, crossing the grey plain on his way home from the kill, drawing a dark wake in the silvery grass."

- Karen Blixen, Letters from Africa 1914-1931

Safari

●  "All through the hours of darkness they were entertained by the cacophony of great armies of grunting wildebeest, honking zebra, roaring lions, screeches, cackles, snorts and often hideous howls rending the night."

- Jan Hensing, Encounters with Lions

●  "I owe an honest apology to hunters whose ecstasy over hunting I had never before understood. There is nothing in the world quite like it."

- Karen Blixen in a letter after returning from a hunting safari

●  "If I should wish anything back of my life, it would be to go on safari once again with Bror."

- Karen Blixen shortly before her death at age 77 in Denmark