E. O. Wilson Hunters Quotations

The naturalist is a civilized hunter. He goes alone into the field or woodland and closes his mind to everything but that time and place, so that life around him presses in on all the senses and small details grow in significance. He begins the scanning search for which cognition was engineered. His mind becomes unfocused, it focuses on everything, no longer directed toward any ordinary task or social pleasantry

No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet,

It's a matter of somebody who killed six other people, ... Chai Vang happens to be Hmong. The hunters who were killed were Caucasian. It's what Chai Vang did, not who he is.