The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us… — Patrick Young Copy Share Image
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It was useless to try to corner a man who told stories. It was like trying to drink all the water in… — Frederick Schiller Faust Copy Share Image
Fly fishing or any other sport fishing, is an end in itself and not a game or competition among fishermen. . . . — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration. — Izaak Walton Copy Share Image
Most fishing rods work better if you grasp them at the thick end. If you grasp a fisherman at the thick end,… — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts. — Charles W. Waterman Copy Share Image
Imagine that your mind is like a calm, clear lake or a vast empty sky: Ripples appear on the surface of the… — Kathleen McDonald Copy Share Image
The summer dawn's reflected hue To purple changed Lock Katrine blue, Mildly and soft the western breeze Just kiss'd the lake, just… — Walter Scott Copy Share Image
Then at night the general stillness is more impressive than any sound, but occasionally you hear the note of an owl farther… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
For this form of fishing (with a wet fly), the rod is no longer a shooting machine but a receiving post, with… — Charles Ritz Copy Share Image
Whether I caught fish or not, just the thrill of rolling out that line and watching my fly turn over has been… — Curt Gowdy Copy Share Image
Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
I heard your song the moment we were born. And years later, it dragged me back from the lake of the half-dead… — Melina Marchetta Copy Share Image
Christmas was coming. One morning in mid-December, Hogwarts woke to find itself covered in several feet of snow. The lake froze solid… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The bowed head, the buried face. She is silent, she will never speak, never forgive, never reach a hand, never leave this… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as we went… — Dorothy Wordsworth Copy Share Image
In the night ride across the Wular lake a small storm made me worry for the safety of my manuscript (Rajatarangini). It… — Aurel Stein Copy Share Image
There is the mind itself. It is like a smooth lake which when struck, say by a stone, vibrates. The vibrations gather… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Winds flap the sail, tortoise and snake are silent, a great plan looms. A bridge will fly over this moat dug by… — Mao Zedong Copy Share Image
The insecticides kill the black flies, but also destroy much of the food chain for the bird, fish, and animal life which… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
Men need to know the elemental challenges that sea and mountains present. They need to know what it is to be alive… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
One chronicler writes of an area of India during the end of the 20th century: Almost no-one in this slum was poor… — Katherine Boo Copy Share Image
I went to Salt Lake City and the Mormons tried to convert me, but when I found they forbade tea and tobacco… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Take my friends and my home - as an outcast I'll roam: Take the money I have in the bank: It is… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
One of the first rules in fishing is that there are few rules in fishing that resourceful trout do not manage to… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
[In The Dark Backward ] someone who has writer's block and kills people in A Cabin By The Lake. I guess he's… — Judd Nelson Copy Share Image
The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers, The water is held in its arms And the sky is… — Hilda Conkling Copy Share Image
Mr. Darcy was in Pride and Prejudice and at first he was all snooty and huffy; then he fell in a lake… — Louise Rennison Copy Share Image
Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers. — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
The fact is, there's a great deal of hair-splitting fussiness when it comes to fly-fishing, most of it as silly as a… — Justin Cronin Copy Share Image
All the streams carry the wisdom of the forest to the lake, and over there, silence replaces the noise! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the… — Charles Ritz Copy Share Image
A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above.… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
“If you can add a great beauty to something which is already beautiful, then you must be very beautiful like a white… — Mehmet Murat ildan Copy Share Image
What pretty bright trout there are in this bold rock creek! It would full be called a river in England, and so… — Thaddeus Norris Copy Share Image
I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, 'There's water in the carburettor'. I said, 'Where's the car?' She… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its… — Arnold Gingrich Copy Share Image