Place has always been important to me, and one thing today's Chicago exudes, as it did in 1893, is a sense of… — Erik Larson Copy Share Image
Fishing, if I a fisher may protest, Of pleasures is the sweetest of sports the best, Of exercises the most excellent, Of… — Thomas Bastard Copy Share Image
(with trout) we are touching something unrestricted, wild and arcane, beyond the reach of those who carefully maintain one-dimensional lives. There is,… — Russell Chatham Copy Share Image
For me, time is the greatest mystery of all. The fact is that we're dreaming all the time. That's what really gets… — Anthony Hopkins Copy Share Image
A terrible violence of creation,A flash into the burning heart of the abominable;Yet if we wait, unafraid, beyond the fearful instant,The burning… — Theodore Roethke Copy Share Image
Travel by canoe is not a necessity, and will nevermore be the most efficient way to get from one region to another,… — John McPhee Copy Share Image
The expedition had now performed its functions. I saw that old father Nile without any doubt rises in the Victoria Nyanza, and… — John Hanning Speke Copy Share Image
Is it not common to say to a child, 'Put your finger in that candle, can you bear it even for one… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
I have never seen white so absolute / And alone, glistening in awkward form / Dreaming across the water a bright path.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
And beyond the timeless meadows and emerald pastures, the rabbit holes and moss-covered oak and rowan trees and the "slippy sloppy" houses… — Susan Branch Copy Share Image
As much as anything, the anglers will clue you in to the midge hatch. You will see them hunched over in concentration… — Ed Engle Copy Share Image
Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impressions have sunk down… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
In my mind, I gave the woman gifts. I gave her a candle stub. I gave her a box of wooden kitchen… — Lewis Nordan Copy Share Image
You've got a lifetime to mull over the Buddhist understanding of interconnectedness." He spoke every sentence as if he'd written it down,… — John Green Copy Share Image
We have all been hypnotized into thinking that we are smaller than we are. Just as an undersized flowerpot keeps a mighty… — Alan Cohen Copy Share Image
What a glorious new Scandinavia might not Minnesota become! Here the Swede would find again his clear, romantic lakes, the plains of… — Fredrika Bremer Copy Share Image
I've gradually fooled myself into becoming a real painter... I really just like to sit in my air-conditioned Rome painting studio surrounded… — Mark Kostabi Copy Share Image
We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may… — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
You can have the courage to climb the mountain, swim the lakes, go on a raft to the other side of the… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
We've got this proposal which has been languishing in the legislature, the Water Legacy Act, which is derived from a Republican task… — Jennifer Granholm Copy Share Image
O scaly, slippery, wet, swift, staring wights, What is 't ye do? what life lead? eh, dull goggles? How do ye vary… — Leigh Hunt Copy Share Image
Generally, we are united in the belief that all rod design has been progressive and that the ideas about fly rods in… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
The narrow path had opened up suddenly onto the edge of a great black lake. Perched atop a high mountain on the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It's hard to explaining exactly what happened, but I felt in that moment that the divine, however we may choose to define… — Josh Radnor Copy Share Image
There is a lake that one day refused to flow away and threw up a dam at the place where it had… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Far away Tongariro! Green - white thundering Athabasca river of New Zealand! I vowed I would come again down across the Pacific… — Zane Grey Copy Share Image
By fate, not option, frugal Nature gave One scent to hyson and to wall-flower, One sound to pine-groves and to water-falls, One… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The matter of flies, lines and other equipment of the right sort is not absolutely necessary in the rising of fish but… — Ray Bergman Copy Share Image
I think that physics is about escaping the prison of the received thoughts and searching for novel ways of thinking the world,… — Carlo Rovelli Copy Share Image
I have two hopes for the future. The first and lesser one is that game commissions will one day have sense enough… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate… — Orison Swett Marden Copy Share Image
Those who awaken never rest in one place. Like swans, they rise and leave the lake. On the air they rise and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
Use the longest leader you can handle. Usually you can handle one much longer than you imagine. Remember that the purpose of… — Ray Bergman Copy Share Image
Our plenteous streams a various race supply, The bright-eyed perch with fins of Tyrian dye, The silver eel, in shining volumes roll'd,… — Alexander Pope Copy Share Image
I am writing a play which I probably will not finish until the end of November. I am writing it with considerable… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
The nature of Christ's salvation is woefully misrepresented by the present-day evangelist. He announces a Saviour from Hell rather than a Saviour… — Arthur W. Pink Copy Share Image
My wants are simple. I have no desire to latch onto a monster symbol of fate and power and prove my manhood… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
I doubt if I shall ever outgrow the excitement bordering on panic which I feel the instant I know I have a… — Ed Weeks Copy Share Image
