In the name of sense, man, if God made fish to be eaten, what difference does it make if I enjoy the… — William Cowper Prime Copy Share Image
I bought an island in 1987. It's in one of the lakes in Canada. I went around it in my boat and… — Dan Aykroyd Copy Share Image
There are two distinct visits to tackle-shops, the visit to buy tackle and the visit which may be described as Platonic when,… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
Hell came right along with God, hand in hand. The stink of sulfur swirled in the air of the church, fire burned… — Harry Crews Copy Share Image
The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees… — Charles Kingsley Copy Share Image
Down on the lake rosy reflections of celestial vapor appeared, and I said, "God, I love you" and looked to the sky… — Jack Kerouac Copy Share Image
Have you ever been approached by a grim-looking man, carrying a naked sword with a blade about ten miles long in his… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
(Lake) Lanier is a good fishing lake. Everybody tells me I put my dock on the best fishing hole in the lake.… — Luke Appling Copy Share Image
Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
And beyond the timeless meadows and emerald pastures, the rabbit holes and moss-covered oak and rowan trees and the "slippy sloppy" houses… — Susan Branch Copy Share Image
I have never seen white so absolute / And alone, glistening in awkward form / Dreaming across the water a bright path.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
Is not the midnight like Central Africa to most of us? Are we not tempted to explore it,--to penetrate to the shores… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Another riveting one was Sterling Sharpe - mainly because everyone told me he's horrible. Sterling was playing in a golf tournament in… — Jeff Pearlman Copy Share Image
The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
. . . had I a river I would gladly let all honest anglers that use the fly cast line in it,… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
Joy, sorrow, tears, lamentation, laughter -- to all these music gives voice, but in such a way that we are transported from… — Albert Schweitzer Copy Share Image
Fly fishing is the most beautiful way of trying to catch a fish; not the most efficient, just as ballet is the… — Howell Raines Copy Share Image
For she was a child, throwing bread to the ducks, between her parents who stood by the lake, holding her life in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I like speed, so I like taking the jet skis out and hitting the water, or hitting the lake. In the winter,… — Laz Alonso Copy Share Image
It may sound funny, but I love the South. I don't choose to live anywhere else. There's land here, where a man… — Medgar Evers Copy Share Image
It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea… — Brenda Peterson Copy Share Image
Ever since I was a child I've felt connected to water: lakes, rivers, streams--I love to jump in and swim around. But… — Susan Cohn Rockefeller Copy Share Image
Praise be to Nero's Neptune The Titanic sails at dawn And everybody's shouting "Which Side Are You On?" And Ezra Pound and… — Bob Dylan Copy Share Image
It's a very familiar type of place where people either go to their house on the lake or they get together in… — Steve Carell Copy Share Image
Still I sojourn here, alone and palely loitering, though the sedge is withered from the lake and no birds sing. For I… — Rose Macaulay Copy Share Image
They were dancing around the fountain, arm in arm, in an old Dutch dance, their cheeks touching, their hands entwined. They had… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
Monsters are getting more uppity, too (...) I heard where this guy, he killed this monster in this lake, no problem, stuck… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Is it not common to say to a child, 'Put your finger in that candle, can you bear it even for one… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become! Here the Swede would find again his clear, romantic lakes, the plains of… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and… — John Hanning Speke Copy Share Image
Travel by canoe is not a necessity, and will nevermore be the most efficient way to get from one region to another,… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may… — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights, What is 't ye do? what life lead? eh, dull goggles? How do ye vary… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
