“I hunt for a lot of reasons. I hunt because I’m an environmentalist and a conservationist. I hunt because I believe that I’m closer to the Earth when I’m engaging with it and there’s something at stake. It doesn’t have that ‘tourist’ feeling that hikes do where you’re taking posed photographs on top…”— James B. Barnes, Daniel Hayes, thoughtcatalog.comTagged: Nature, Hunting, The Outdoors, Tourism, Environmentalism