In this issue, a common thread revealed itself: that we’ve all learned important lessons through outdoor pursuits that have shaped who we are as humans, hunters, and, in some cases, as philosophers. Jose Ortega y Gasset wisely wrote about how the experience of hunting puts us into a state that “contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of nature.” We are reminded of things that are greater than us, that we don’t need to understand to feel and know with our entire being.
“Life is a terrible conflict, a grandiose and atrocious confluence. Hunting submerges man deliberately in that formidable mystery and therefore contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of nature.”
– Jose Ortega y Gasset from Meditations on Hunting
In this issue, a common thread revealed itself: that we’ve all learned important lessons through outdoor pursuits that have shaped who we are as humans, hunters, and, in some cases, as philosophers. Jose Ortega y Gasset wisely wrote about how the experience of hunting puts us into a state that “contains something of religious rite and emotion in which homage is paid to what is divine, transcendent, and in the laws of nature.” We are reminded of things that are greater than us, that we don’t need to understand to feel and know with our entire being.
Volume 15 includes 224 pages of stories, art and photographs with that goal in mind including:
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