The life of the wood, meadow, and lake go on without us. Flowers bloom, set seed and die back; squirrels hide nuts… — Ann Zwinger Copy Share Image
Let every man shovel out his own snow, and the whole city will be passable," said Gamache. Seeing Beauvoir's puzzled expression he… — Louise Penny Copy Share Image
It is convenient for the old men to blame Eve. To insist we are damned because a country girl talked to the… — Jack Gilbert Copy Share Image
If you have never taken the train across Canada, you really should put it on your life list... Meanwhile, I get to… — Elizabeth May Copy Share Image
Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on? — P. G. Wodehouse Copy Share Image
Literature is a vast forest and the masterpieces are the lakes, the towering trees or strange trees, the lovely, eloquent flowers, the… — Roberto Bolano Copy Share Image
A Rod: An attractively painted length of fiberglass that keeps an angler from ever getting too close to a fish. — Robbie Keane 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
He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a… — Louis Sachar 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
Still, even without the country or a lake, the summer was a fine thing, particularly when you were at the beginning of… — Edward Eager Copy Share Image
Beyond love, beyond unrequited love, perhaps even beyond any other passion known to humanity, deep, deep in the depths of the turgid,… — Ben Elton 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
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
We do not need to plan or devise a "world of the future"; if we take care of the world of the… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
And why do so many people wilfully exhaust their strength in promiscuous living, when their wives are on hand from bridal night… — Ihara Saikaku Copy Share Image
The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees… — Charles Kingsley 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
The chief difference between big-game fishing and weightlifting is that weightlifters never clutter up their library walls with stuffed barbells — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
The fisherman has a harmless, preoccupied look; he is a kind of vagrant, that nothing fears. He blends himself with the trees… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
My point is, however, that churches do promote beliefs that would more appropriately find a place in a context of intellectual debate.… — Robert M. Price Copy Share Image
Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from… — Thaddeus Norris Copy Share Image
Turning points in my life... the bush, the trails, lakes, waterfalls... moving camp from one wonderful lake to another... the companionship of… — Arthur Lismer Copy Share Image
A world in which time is absolute is a world of consolation. For while the movements of people are unpredictable, the movement… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image