I went camping and borrowed a circus tent by mistake. I didn't notice until I got it set up. People complained because… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“Sturdy swimmers afloat on water-couch Beneath the heavy bill their treasured pouch Fishes pray for them to fly far away Inland lakes… — Munia Khan Copy Share Image
During my addled career as a trout fisherman I have gone on a lot of wild-goose chases, and I ruefully expect to… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
The fish is swift, small-needing, vague yet clear, A cold, sweet, silver life, wrapped in round waves. — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
There's always been an assumption that ocean shipping coming in and out of the Great Lakes is critical to the economy. It… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
Make all approaches to the stream with care and caution. Remember that once you are seen you are a great disadvantage if… — Ray Bergman Copy Share Image
I think it's mental to pay for water. Where is that water coming from? Are they in the hills puttin' it into… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
Our solar system is fantastically bizarre. There are worlds with features we never imagined. Storms larger than planets, moons with under-surface oceans,… — Phil Plait Copy Share Image
The skin is no more separated from the brain than the surface of a lake is separate from its depths; the two… — Deane Juhan Copy Share Image
Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a… — Vance Bourjaily Copy Share Image
All I know is that once Julián told the kids in the building that he had a sister only he could see.… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon Copy Share Image
The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and serene lakes. It has enough lush forests, flowered fields, and sandy… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
“It is usual that little streams put their mouths into big rivers. Most rivers can also be traced to the big sea.… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
My theory is that there is no word that you can say or noise that you can make with your mouth that… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
During the warm season (August 8 and 9), Maine is a true vacation paradise, offering visitors a chance to jump into crystal-clear… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Of course, now I am too old to be much of a fisherman, and now of course I usually fish the big… — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
One felt as if there was an enormous well behind them. Filled up with ages of memory and long, slow, steady thinking;… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
When called to the Council of the Twelve, October 4, 1963, he said in the Salt Lake Tabernacle: I think of a… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
I think about going to the lake, but I'm so weak that I barely make it to my meeting place with Gale.… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
Suppose a number of equal waves of water to move upon the surface of a stagnant lake, with a certain constant velocity,… — Thomas Young Copy Share Image
Soon they were all sitting on the rocky ledge, which was still warm, watching the sun go down into the lake. It… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
A library is but the soul's burial ground; it is the land of shadows. Yet one is impressed with the thought, the… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
In traditional 'Swan Lakes,' it's Prince Siegfried's 21st-birthday celebration, his coming-of-age. The entire court, from his mother the Queen on down, is… — Robert Gottlieb Copy Share Image
'The Lake of Dreams' grew gradually, over many years, elements and ideas accruing until they gained enough critical mass to become a… — Kim Edwards Copy Share Image
The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish Cut with her golden oars the silver stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I was born on Wellington Avenue and my family that remains lives in the Lake Shore Drive area. — Bob Balaban Copy Share Image
Little stones that are pelted into the lake of consciousness should not throw the whole lake into commotion. — Paramahansa Yogananda Copy Share Image
Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish. — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole… — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
For such a small country, Britain packs in an amazing diversity of landscapes: coastline, lakes, mountains, rolling countryside, villages and great cities. — Rory Bremner Copy Share Image
I seem to be inside a kind of artificial environment. Almost like a... a simulacrum of Reiden Lake. — Christa Faust Copy Share Image
My garden is a forest ledge Which older forest s bound; The banks slope down to the blue lake-edge, Then plunge to… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I will arise and go now, for always night and day I hear lake water lapping...I hear it in the deep heart's… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
All my clear-eyed fish, Golden, or rainbow-sided, or purplish, Vermilion-tail'd, or finn'd with silvery gauze... My charming rod, my potent river spells. — John Keats Copy Share Image
Oh, yes, I taught 13 and a half years. I taught English, first at a Catholic school and then at El Toro… — Elizabeth George Copy Share Image
There are moments, above all on June evenings, when the lakes that hold our moons are sucked into the earth, and nothing… — Charles Morgan Copy Share Image
I think my heart breaks daily living in Salt Lake City, Utah. But I still love it. And that is the richness,… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Fly tackle has improved considerably since 1676, when Charles Cotton advised anglers to 'fish fine and far off,' but no one has… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
