Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod... But it has among its predators - man,… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan. — Jean Shepherd Copy Share Image
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
I can't wait to have kids one day. I want to have kids and a farm with lots of animals on a… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake… — Oriah Dreamer Copy Share Image
Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans,… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
Anglers boast of the innocence of their pastime; yet it puts fellow-creatures to the torture. They pique themselves on their meditative faculties;… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska.… — Jimmy Carter Copy Share Image
Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a… — Vance Bourjaily Copy Share Image
The skin is no more separated from the brain than the surface of a lake is separate from its depths; the two… — Deane Juhan Copy Share Image
My theory is that there is no word that you can say or noise that you can make with your mouth that… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
During the warm season (August 8 and 9), Maine is a true vacation paradise, offering visitors a chance to jump into crystal-clear… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
It is well known that no person who regards his reputation will ever kill a trout with anything but a fly. It… — Charles Dudley Warner Copy Share Image
She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid,… — Ben Elton Copy Share Image
That is the earth, he thought. Not a globe thousands of kilometers around, but a forest with a shining lake, a house… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
I look at it this way... For centuries now, man has done everything he can to destroy, defile, and interfere with nature:… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
There was a small wooden gazebo built out over the water; Isabelle was sitting in it, staring out across the lake. She… — Cassandra Clare Copy Share Image
Here when the labouring fish does at the foot arrive, And finds that by his strength but vainly he doth strive; His… — Michael Drayton Copy Share Image
Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing… — Charles Morgan Copy Share Image
Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
No lake is beautiful without the sky, without the mist or without the trees and the autumn leaves! No beauty is beautiful… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water. — Tom Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
When, by meditation, we withdraw restless thoughts from the lake of the mind, we behold our soul, a perfect reflection of Spirit. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Lakes, rivers, streams...all are water and all travel to the same destination. So it is with religion. — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
Talent, will and genius are natural phenomena like the lake, the volcano, the mountain, the wind, the star, the cloud. — George Sand Copy Share Image
We have fewer troops in Afghanistan than we had law enforcement [officers] at the Olympics in Salt Lake City. — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
Born in the Flint, Michigan, big boat sailing on the Great Lakes and skiing in the winter was how most of my… — Doug Rice Copy Share Image
The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new… — John Gierach Copy Share Image