And where the deepest current crawls/ Like thistledown the dainty fly falls./ Then from the depths a silver gleam/ Quick flashes, like… — John Buchan Copy Share Image
What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed… — Jessica Maxwell Copy Share Image
Nile perch is a fish that was introduced into Lake Victoria. The reason that fish was introduced into Lake Victoria was because… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
There is an immense trout in Loch Awe in Scotland, which is so voracious, and swallows his own species with such avidity,… — Arnold Gingrich Copy Share Image
Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
President David O. McKay put it beautifully when he said, speaking of mothers, 'This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the… — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most impressive illustration of all is to suppose that you could label the molecules in a tumbler of water. ...… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
The idea for Maximum Ride come from the earlier books of mine called When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, which… — James Patterson 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
If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
That night we danced, I marked you as mine and I made it stick. There wasn’t a boy or a man on… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I… — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
If little fish get eaten by bigger fish, and bigger fish get eaten by bigger fish... what happens when there are no… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
You just have to take a little salt, and since I'm doing that it's, like, BOOM! In one week, I felt it… — Jean-Claude Van Damme Copy Share Image
She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Fish in the water represent pure potential. If the water is not clear, we do not know if they exist at all.… — Howell Raines Copy Share Image
Someday stars will wind down or blow up. Someday death will cover us all like the water of a lake and perhaps… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
But far, oh, far as passionate eye can reach, And long, ah, long as rapturous eye can cling, The world is mine:… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
Post office closures in the Dakotas and Minnesota will impact many communities, but the White Earth reservation villages, and other tribal towns… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Raindrops the size of bullets thundered on the castle windows for days on end; the lake rose, the flower beds turned into… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
As a Canadian it's something you grow up with. Where I'm from in Canada the ground usually freezes in late October and… — Gerad Adams Copy Share Image
The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A standard saying among fly fishermen is that trout spend anywhere from 80 to 90 percent of their time feeding below the… — Ed Engle Copy Share Image
Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
Some say no evil thing that walks by night, In fog or fire, by lake or moorish fen, Blue meagre hag, or… — John Milton Copy Share Image
Fish sense, applied in the field, is what the old Zen masters would call enlightenment: simply the ability to see what's right… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Over the years, whenever I've felt that little twinkle in the hairs on the back of my neck., as I encountered an… — Arnold Gingrich Copy Share Image
Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Lo! while we are gazing, in swifter haste Stream down the snows, till the air is white, As, myriads by myriads madly… — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
It is sweet to see how soon a spring becomes a rill, and a rill runs on into a rivulet, and a… — R.D. Blackmore Copy Share Image
Oh land of farms and green hills mild Once formed by giants rough and wild With massive paws they gripped and tore… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the… — Jean-Jacques Rousseau Copy Share Image
