Water its living strength first shows, When obstacles its course oppose. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
There is something basic about fishing that goes back to man's very beginnings. — Robert Fuller Copy Share Image
“It's not the fish you bring home from a day's fishing. It's the peace of mind.” — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
Fishing is taking a huge toll on the planet's ecosystem. We are emptying the oceans, seas, lakes, and rivers as we fish… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
To seek these things is lost labour; Geese in an oyle pot, fat Hogs among Jews, and Wine in a fishing net. — George Herbert Copy Share Image
As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to… — Paul Schullery Copy Share Image
Hatchery fish have the same colours, but they always seem muted like bad reproductions of great art. — Bill Barich Copy Share Image
Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
There was never an angler who lived but that there was a fish capable of taking the conceit out of him. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished… — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
There were a few youthful fishing trips, but I never enjoyed the experiences, partly because I didn't like hurting the bait. — Walter Cronkite Copy Share Image
My main aim is getting set up so that when I do quit, I can step away and re-evaluate what I want… — Boo Weekley Copy Share Image
Somebody might say that they always wanted to be a fly-fishing guide in Montana and maybe they'll never get to do that… — John Lee Hancock Copy Share Image
“The planet may never recover from the environmental devastation wrought by commercial fishing. It seems that our oceans, once thought to hold… — Hope Bohanec Copy Share Image
To me, it's a great day every time I receive a letter from somebody who climbed inside one of my books, inhabited… — David James Duncan Copy Share Image
I was probably about six or seven and my dad had a fishing rod of his dad's and said we should go… — Phil Foden Copy Share Image
Where I stand at is on the Second Amendment where the right to bear arms is not just for hunting and fishing… — Big Boi 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
If we carry purism to it's logical conclusion, to do it right {fishing} you'd have to live naked in a cave, hit… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
I always say artists must broaden their research. I go to casinos, fly fishing, to show apartments in new residential buildings, watch… — Ryan Gander Copy Share Image
So, eventually, he made one final arrangement with himself, which he has religiously held to ever since, and that was to count… — Jerome K. Jerome Copy Share Image
Some friends and I, we went right up there behind the studio and we got on a train, we could tell it… — William T. Vollmann Copy Share Image
“It's a fine, warm day,” Henry replied. “I thought a spot of fishing?” “Just the thing!” said Felix. “Will you join us,… — Tessa Dare Copy Share Image
“Fishing provides time to think, and reason not to. If you have the virtue of patience, an hour or two of casting… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
“By 2030, says the UN Food and Agriculture Organization, fish farming will dominate fish supplies. Given how wrong the FAO has been… — Charles Clover Copy Share Image
I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of… — Ken Kesey 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
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing. — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
when one went fishing in information networks, one also became fish food. — Carol O'Connell Copy Share Image
This dish of meat is too good for any but anglers, or very honest men. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
You might as well just move onto a boat because you're always fishing for compliments. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
