Once I retire and slow down, I don't want to be in New York. I want to be somewhere near a lake… — Sharon Jones Copy Share Image
It was a life with purpose. And it was also a lot of fun. Fishing is fun. Hiking up mountains is fun.… — Leigh Newman Copy Share Image
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen… — B.K.S. Iyengar Copy Share Image
There is a lot of amiable fantasy written about trout fishing, but the truth is that few men know much if anything… — John D. Voelker Copy Share Image
Ah, Jenks? It’s not a lake, it’s a friggin’ freshwater ocean. Did you see the size of the tanker going under the… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time! — Herbert Hoover Copy Share Image
Long drawn, the cool, green shadows Steal o'er the lake's warm breast, And the ancient silence follows The burning sun to rest.… — William Braithwaite Copy Share Image
I fished a little while ago with a man, not in his first youth, who had wasted the flower of his life… — Arthur Ransome 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
We've all got troubles. We all make mistakes. But let's not take a little river turn it into lake. — Jennifer Love Hewitt Copy Share Image
As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to… — Paul Schullery Copy Share Image
I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
A few days before the [Mr. America] contest we heard rumors about a man who had throngs of people following him along… — George Eiferman Copy Share Image
It is not a good idea, either, to attach material such as Krystal Flash or Flashabou, then trim all strands at one… — Lefty Kreh Copy Share Image
What pretty bright trout there are in this bold rock creek! It would full be called a river in England, and so… — Thaddeus Norris Copy Share Image
Just because we're fictional characters doesn't mean you can pick us up and move us anywhere you want.--the people of Lake Woebegon — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
I like to do every operation the same way on each fly. In the course of tying a batch of flies, I… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
In the middle of Siberia I guess there's a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
An errant May-fly swerved unsteadily athwart the current in the intoxicated fashion affected by young bloods of May-flies seeing life. A swirl… — Kenneth Grahame Copy Share Image
The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you.… — Klaus Kinski Copy Share Image
To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I… — Norman Borlaug Copy Share Image
The country is an archipelago of lakes,--the lake-country of New England. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The crumbling castle, looming among the mists, exhaled the season, and every cold stone breathed it out. The tortured trees by the… — Mervyn Peake Copy Share Image
Imagine if Congress always put the interests of polluters ahead of the health of our families. Our rivers and lakes would be… — Jeff Merkley 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