Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of… — Arthur Lismer Copy Share Image
I would not that death should take me asleep. I would not have him merely seize me, and only declare me to… — John Donne Copy Share Image
“O trees of life, O when are you wintering? We are not unified. We have no instincts like those of migratory birds.… — Rainer Maria Rilke Copy Share Image
I hear voices. A shout. A laugh. Clay's laugh. I strained to see through the night. Fog had rolled in from Lake… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
And here we are with our improved human world that we've spent a great deal of time and energy working on. We've… — Steve Hagen Copy Share Image
The castle grounds were gleaming in the sunlight as though freshly painted; the cloudless sky smiled at itself in the smoothly sparkling… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The enormous lake stretched flat and smooth and white all the way to the edge of the gray sky. Wagon tracks went… — Laura Ingalls Wilder Copy Share Image
In my years of public service at both the federal and state levels, I have had the privilege of representing most of… — Mario Diaz-Balart Copy Share Image
The creatures with whom we share the planet and whom, in our arrogance, we wrongly patronize for being lesser forms, they are… — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
These bright roofs, these steep towers, these jewel-lakes, these skeins of railroad line - all spoke to her and she answered. She… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
Let us dig our gardens and not be elsewhere; Let us take long walks in the open air... Let us bathe in… — Robert Linssen Copy Share Image
Cut off my head, and singular I am, Cut off my tail, and plural I appear; Although my middle's left, there's nothing… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life. A swirl… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
Trout aren't naturally as selective as they've become in crowded tailwaters - they've been trained to be like that by too much… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
While the very inhabitants of New England were thus fabling about the country a hundred miles inland, which was a terra incognitato… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
I fished upstream coming ever closer and closer to the narrow staircase of the canyon. Then I went up into it as… — Richard Brautigan Copy Share Image
If you put a spoonful of salt in a cup of water it tastes very salty. If you put a spoonful of… — Jack Kornfield Copy Share Image
It is not a good idea, either, to attach material such as Krystal Flash or Flashabou, then trim all strands at one… — Lefty Kreh Copy Share Image
When the dead do walk seek water's run, for this the Dead will always shun. Swift river's best or broadest lake to… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in… — Sylvester McCoy Copy Share Image
My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
The only immortality we know of is our children, and in that unfinished story of the acts of lives, which, forever expanding,… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on The troubled waters of a… — George Colman the Elder Copy Share Image
What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever,… — Rick Danko Copy Share Image
As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
And connected I had been. When the fish changed directions, I felt it. when it slowed or sped up, I felt that… — Jessica Maxwell Copy Share Image
I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on… — F. R. Scott Copy Share Image
“Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at… — Jeannette Walls Copy Share Image
I want to help others 'think first' before diving into a pool or lake to prevent these types of life-changing accidents. I… — Brooke Burns Copy Share Image
Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of… — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on… — Edmund Muskie Copy Share Image
Lake Baikal in Russia has 25 percent of the freshwater resources of the world. Sixty-five percent of the Russian ecosystems are in… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook,… — William Cowper Prime Copy Share Image
Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image