No lake is beautiful without the sky, without the mist or without the trees and the autumn leaves! No beauty is beautiful… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
What have we here? a man or a fish? dead or alive? A fish: he smells like a fish; a very ancient… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see… — Bonnie Raitt Copy Share Image
Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales where walking was part… — Roger Bannister Copy Share Image
...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water. — Tom Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
When I was very young - around the age of nine - my family used to go to a house in Somerset… — Christopher Lee Copy Share Image
You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered. — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
Aquarium fishes even if they only imagine going to a lake, the windows of that aquarium will become thinner than before. — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills When all at once I saw a crowd… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
One learns that the world, though made, is yet being made; that this is still the morning of creation; that mountains long… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The pain of life is pure salt; no more, no less. The amount of pain in life remains the same, exactly the… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
We lost the crickets," she said. "Even you can't make that sound tough." ..."I am Butler," he said with a straight-face. "Everything… — Eoin Colfer Copy Share Image
If you looked down to the bottom of my soul, you would understand fully the source of my longing and – pity… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The rain set early in tonight, The sullen wind was soon awake, It tore the elm-tops down for spite, And did its… — Robert Browning Copy Share Image
We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers… — Winona LaDuke Copy Share Image
I went camping one time when I was twelve, to the Great Lakes. My friend stepped in really deep muddy water and… — Norman Reedus Copy Share Image
The King beneath the mountains, The King of carven stone, The lord of silver fountains Shall come into his own! His crown… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We often move away from pain, which is helpful only before being hurt. Once in pain, it seems the only way out… — Mark Nepo Copy Share Image
Lightning my pilot sits; In a cavern under is fettered the thunder, It struggles and howls at fits; Over earth and ocean,… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
Through the din and desultoriness of noon, even in the most Oriental city, is seen the fresh and primitive and savage nature,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Are you aware that your spirit needs to be fed? Did you know that your spirit would be delighted to partake in… — Iyanla Vanzant 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
Fishermen, no matter what supreme good fortune befalls them, cannot ever be absolutely satisfied. It is a fundamental weakness of intellect. — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
I think reality is thin, you know, thin as lake ice after a thaw, and we fill our lives with noise and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Let beeves and home-bred kine partake The sweets of Burn-mill meadow; The swan on still St. Mary's Lake Float double, swan and… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod... But it has among its predators - man,… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan. — Jean Shepherd Copy Share Image
Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they… — Muhammad Ali Copy Share Image
I can't wait to have kids one day. I want to have kids and a farm with lots of animals on a… — Kirsten Dunst Copy Share Image
I want to know if you can live with failure, yours and mine, and still stand on the edge of the lake… — Oriah Dreamer Copy Share Image
Fly-fishing may be a very pleasant amusement; but angling or float fishing I can only compare to a stick and a string,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint. — Joan Mitchell Copy Share Image
Born in the Flint, Michigan, big boat sailing on the Great Lakes and skiing in the winter was how most of my… — Doug Rice Copy Share Image
Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Floating in a lake, lying in a hammock, playing a bit of Scrabble...that's what I'm in need of. — Karen Walker Copy Share Image
I walked to the lake and sat on the shore for a few minutes, just staring at the moonlight on the water.… — Bill Barich Copy Share Image
It is easy to tell tourists from tarpon. Tarpon have a narrow, bony plate inside the mouth of their lower jaw. Tourists… — Ed Zern Copy Share Image