What I had mastered was fly-fishing Rule # 1: Remove all hooks from soft tissue under water, where near-freezing temperatures anesthetize exposed… — Jessica Maxwell Copy Share Image
Let us dig our gardens and not be elsewhere; Let us take long walks in the open air... Let us bathe in… — Robert Linssen Copy Share Image
People go on postponing everything that is meaningful. Tomorrow they will laugh; today, money has to be gathered... more money, more power,… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
The old order, it is good for the old. A farmer wants his son to be afraid of beautiful women, so that… — Catherynne M. Valente Copy Share Image
She was no longer that happy creature who in earlier youth wandered with me on the banks of the lake and talked… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
Our whole past experience is continually in our consciousness, though most of it sunk to a great depth of dimness. I think… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
Though the words Canada East on the map stretch over many rivers and lakes and unexplored wildernesses, the actual Canada, which might… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I know of the leafy paths that the witches take Who come with their crowns of pearl and their spindles of wool,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
There are times when salmon play no part in the proceedings of a day that is obstensibly spent in their pursuit. — Dale Rex Coman Copy Share Image
Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and… — George Bernard Shaw 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
A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
“The lake hadn’t been frozen long and of all them had been expressly forbidden to go out on it, but Norman Pye,… — Mary Lawson 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
The wolf dreads the pitfall, the hawk suspects the snare, and the kite the covered hook. — Horace Copy Share Image
I'm an African woman, I suppose these thoughts torture me more than they do black American people, because it's like watching my… — Kola Boof Copy Share Image
Life processes take place in an aqueous medium. All organisms are composed mostly of water, whether they dwell in the oceans, lakes,… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
Catch-and-release fishing is an ecological necessity, not my preference. The practice smacks of bad faith, an inauthentic act. — Christopher Camuto Copy Share Image
It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness. — Tom Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
Grace is like a lake of drinkable water right outside your door. But you stay inside and die of thirst. — Maya Angelou Copy Share Image
You can't see Canada across lake Erie, but you know it's there. It's the same with spring. You have to have faith,… — Paul Fleischman Copy Share Image
Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to… — Orlando Aloysius Battista Copy Share Image
I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
Her mighty lakes, like oceans of liquid silver; her mountains with their right aerial tints; her valleys, teeming with wild fertility; her… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
