“AS A HUNTER I am looked down upon in Western society. I am portrayed as a brute. I am denigrated and spat upon, and thought of as a slow-witted anachronism, the dregs of a discredited culture. This happened quickly when one looks at human history. The skills I possess—the ability to track, hunt, kill, and dress out my prey so it can be served at a table to feed others—were prized for tens of thousands of years. Hunters fed those in the tribe and family who could not hunt well or did not hunt because they weren’t physically able to. The success of the hunter produced not only healthy food and clothing, tools, medicine, and amenities, but a direct hot-blooded connection with God and the natural world. The hunter was the provider, and exalted as such.”
― C.J. Box, quote from Blood Trail
“I often think that in the world we live in today, where we are threatened by forces as violent and primitive as anything we have ever faced, that it would be wise to look back a little ourselves and embrace our heritage. We were once a nation of hunters. And not the effete, European-style hunters who did it for sport. We hunted for our food, our independence. It’s what made us who we are. But, like so many other virtues that made us unique, we have, as a society, forgotten where we came from and how we got here. What was once both noble and essential has become perverted and indefensible.”
― C.J. Box, quote from Blood Trail
“I know Edmond Locard’s Principle, the central theory of modern forensic crime-scene investigation: something is always left behind.”
― C.J. Box, quote from Blood Trail
“It’s strange how often human beings die without any kind of style.”
― C.J. Box, quote from Blood Trail
“You see, humans always leave something behind.”
― C.J. Box, quote from Blood Trail
“Good hunters considered hunting a solemn privilege and a means to reconnect with the natural world, to place themselves back on earth, into a place without supermarkets, processed foods, and commercial meat manufacturing industries. Hunting was basic, primal, and humbling.”
― C.J. Box, quote from Blood Trail
C.J. Box
Born place: Wyoming, The United States
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“When love has been in your life you see that the only true, real pleasure of life is love. Every other thrill arises from that basic source of pleasure. The most meaningful songs are those your lover hums in your presence, the prettiest blossoms are the ones he offers and the only praise that counts is your beloved's. In a word or two, life only goes Technicolor in the very moment love's fingers caress it.”
― Rajaa Alsanea, quote from Girls of Riyadh
“There are many humorous things in the world; among them the white man's notion that he is less savage than the other savages.—[See”
― Mark Twain, quote from Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
“get the collection of blankets and rugs from the boat. They arranged them in the corners of the little room, and thought that it would be very exciting to spend the night there. ‘The two girls can sleep together on this pile of rugs,’ said Julian. ‘And we two boys will have this pile.’ George looked as if she didn’t want to be put with Anne, and classed as a girl. But Anne didn’t”
― Enid Blyton, quote from Five on a Treasure Island
“winter wonderland
We snowshoe to the river. Take gorgeous and times it by ten. The trees in the forest are heavy, their limbs sagging, the brilliant white snow glimmering by the reflection of the moon. I think I’m walking in a dream.
What I didn’t know is how close Ava’s cabin is to the dollhouse. There is a shortcut up the back of the hill, along the side ridge of trees. And before I know it, Teague and I are on the shore of the rumbling, spitting, ice-cold, mostly frozen river.
My heart is shivering. “Please tell me we don’t have to cross this thing.”
Teague smiles. “You’ll see.”
We snowshoe a ways up the shore of the river, until he stops, takes off his pack, and sets it down on the ice.
“We could possibly get across by foot,” he tells me as he effortlessly climbs up a tree. “But this is more fun.”
He pulls down a handle attached to a pulley thingamajig, and I suddenly realize we are going to be flying across the river, like circus performers on a trapeze.
I’m going first.
Teague straps me in, attaching the pulley to a cable suspended across the water.
He checks and rechecks all the cords, making sure they are snug. “You’re set!” he says, smiling at me.
I shimmy up the tree and, holding the trapeze bar tight, leap out over the crackling glacial ice.
On the other side I scream with exhilaration.
My voice echoes across the forest, waking, I’m sure, every moose within miles. I can’t stop smiling as I unhook myself and hurl the bar as hard as I can back over the wire toward Teague. He makes fast work, joining me in a matter of minutes. He is quiet in his confidence. His hands are warm, and I hold one as the two of us walk together up the snow-covered steps to the dollhouse cabin.”
― Megan Shull, quote from Amazing Grace
“Guarding knowledge is not a good way to understand. Understanding means to throw away your knowledge.”
― Thich Nhat Hanh, quote from Being Peace
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