Authors
Topics
Lists
Pictures
Resources
More about Archibald Rutledge
Archibald Rutledge Quotes
3 Sourced Quotes
Source
Report...
It has always seemed to me that any man is a better man for being a hunter. This sport confers a certain constant alertness, and develops a certain ruggedness of character....Moreover, it allies us to the pioneer past. In a deep sense, this great land of ours was won for us by hunters.
Archibald Rutledge
Source
Report...
The turkey's eyes are such that he can see a bumblebee turn a somersault on the verge of the horizon.
Archibald Rutledge
Source
Report...
It is my fixed conviction that if a parent can give his children a passionate and wholesome devotion to the outdoors, the fact that he cannot leave each of them a fortune does not really matter so much.
Archibald Rutledge
Quote of the day
Nobody ever did anything very foolish except from some strong principle.
William Lamb, 2nd Viscount Melbourne
Archibald Rutledge
Born:
1883
Died:
1973
(aged 90)
Bio:
Archibald Hamilton Rutledge was an American poet and educator, the first South Carolina poet laureate from 1934 to 1973. He wrote over 50 books and many poems, usually about his hunting and life experiences in South Carolina.
Known for:
Home by the river (1955)
Life's extras (1928)
Old plantation days (1905)
Bird dog days, wingshooting ways
God's children (1947)
Archibald Rutledge on Wikipedia
Suggest an edit or a new quote
American Poet Quotes
Poet Quotes
19th-century Poet Quotes
Featured Authors
Lists
Predictions that didn't happen
If it's on the Internet it must be true
Remarkable Last Words (or Near-Last Words)
Picture Quotes
Confucius
Philip James Bailey
Eleanor Roosevelt
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Popular Topics
life
love
nature
time
god
power
human
mind
work
art
heart
thought
men
day
×
Lib Quotes