It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness. — Tom Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever. — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
Fishing tournaments seem a little like playing tennis with living balls... — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
Promising to bring home a feed of fish is the absolute kiss of death to any chances of catching anything but a… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee. — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
I fell in love with folk music at Surprise Lake Camp. It was the songs of Woody Guthrie and the Weavers. — Neil Diamond Copy Share Image
The mind is like a lake. It reflects eternity when it's very still. If ripples appear, lots of them, then the reflection… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated… — Jack Ohman Copy Share Image
Ah me son, we don't be takin' nothin' from the sea. We has to sneak up on what we wants and wiggle… — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
The union of lakes--the union of lands-- The union of States none can sever-- The union of hearts--the union of hands-- And… — George Pope Morris Copy Share Image
It is therefore essential to let the 'heart spirit' settle like calm water. Then it becomes a tranquil lake in which the… — Olivier Clement Copy Share Image
Most fisherman, including this one, cling to their pet stupidities as they would to a battered briar or an old jacket; and… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that the Great Lakes region will be at the center of an internally-focused North American economy when the hallucination of… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $300 in his pocket.… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
Ayame: "Yuki, let's deepen the bond between us brothers!" Yuki: "Before you can do that I'll drown you in the deepest part… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
History is a state of yearning. I yearn for Kay Lake throughout this entire thing. There's an essay I've written where I… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
.. the long hour and a half walk-in to the secret pool , only to find four anglers filling it. Secret pools?… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Before we go there and set up greenhouses, dance clubs, and falafel stands, let's make sure that, in some subtle form that… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prarie, it concerns us to attend to… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
I turn and I look back across the lake. The mist is gone and the ice diminished, the drip of the icicles… — James Frey Copy Share Image
It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
I like to do every operation the same way on each fly. In the course of tying a batch of flies, I… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Allowing the fly to sink to the fish's level, the angler makes a retrieve. The fly comes directly at the fish, which… — Lefty Kreh Copy Share Image
Look at that mallard as he floats on the lake; see his elevated head glittering with emerald green, his amber eyes glancing… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean. — Percy Ross Copy Share Image
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
In order that he might rob a neighbour whom he had promised to defend, black men fought on the coast of Coromandel… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One… — Joe Brooks Copy Share Image
Never, under any circumstance, do I touch soup, as I do not believe in building a meal on a lake. — Elsie de Wolfe Copy Share Image
Successful trout fishing isn't a matter of brute force or even persistence, but something more like infiltration. — John Gierach Copy Share Image
They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it… — Jonathan Swift Copy Share Image
Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always… — Billy Collins Copy Share Image
When you're young you think that you're going to sail into a lovely lake of quietude and peace. This is profoundly untrue. — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
Spirit is a land of high white peaks and glittering jewel-like lakes and flowers. Life is sparse and sounds travel great distances. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
