Thomas R. Dunlap, Remaking Worlds: European models in New Lands, in Nature and the English Diaspora: Environment and History in the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, Studies in Environment and History, n. 17, Cambridge University Press, 1999, p. 61, ISBN 978-0-521-65700-6. URL consultato il 24 dicembre 2013.
«The settlers adopted sport hunting, as they did other elements of British culture, but they had to adapt it. Social circumstances and biological realities reshaped it and gave it new meaning. There was no elite monopolizing access to land. Indeed, the great attraction and boast of these nations were of land for all.»