Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever. — William Gilbert Copy Share Image
It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness. — Tom Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
I did grow up in New Orleans. I grew up right on the lake, right across the levee. — Bryan Batt Copy Share Image
During the Tertiary period the whole valley of Mexico was one great lake. — Edward Burnett Tylor Copy Share Image
. . . . spending more time with my fly firmly attached to the branches of trees and almost none of it… — Tom Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha, It held the shivering, the shaken limbs, Then bathed its body in… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering. — Jim Harrison Copy Share Image
The mind should turn into a serene and stormless lake, where is reflected the complete panorama of the starry sky. — Samael Aun Weor Copy Share Image
Summer time an' the livin' is easy, Fish are jumpin' an' the cotton is high. Oh, yo' daddy's rich, and yo' ma'… — Ira Gershwin Copy Share Image
The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how… — Paul Schullery Copy Share Image
Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
The Pacific no longer represents menacing avenues of approach for a prospective invader. It assumes, instead, the friendly aspect of a peaceful… — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
Yes, I actually have a portable fly-tying kit in my vest. I spent hours putting it all together, with a special emphasis… — Jack Ohman Copy Share Image
In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too… — Thomas McGuane Copy Share Image
You know what the economics are like in Red Lake County. There's no way a family can pay $15,000, $20,000 a year… — Collin Peterson Copy Share Image
White Pond and Walden are great crystals on the surface of the earth, Lakes of Light… They are too pure to have… — Henry David Thoreau 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
To be great, be whole; Exclude nothing, exaggerate nothing that is not you. Be whole in everything. Put all you are Into… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
Afterward, I had the last laugh. I made an air bubble at the bottom of the lake. Our friends kept waiting for… — Rick Riordan 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
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
Our human tragedy is that we are unable to comprehend our experience, it slips through our fingers, we can't hold on to… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I call the light and high aspects of my being spirit and the dark and heavy aspects soul. Soul is at home… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I confess I was surprised to find that so many men spent their whole day, ay, their whole lives almost, a-fishing. It… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Look at that mallard as he floats on the lake; see his elevated head glittering with emerald green, his amber eyes glancing… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
Before we go there and set up greenhouses, dance clubs, and falafel stands, let's make sure that, in some subtle form that… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Here in the Great Lakes region, a fourth year in a row of declining water levels has caused millions of dollars in… — Timothy Egan Copy Share Image
The country is an archipelago of lakes,--the lake-country of New England. — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City. — Hermann Maier Copy Share Image
If you're a fish and you want to be a fish-stick, you have to have very good posture. — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
The lake at Neverland is right in the very front, and you just want to dive in. — Rick Dees Copy Share Image
I don't really know how to tie a fly until I've tied a hundred dozen of them. — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Music is an ocean, but the repertory is hardly even a lake; it is a pond. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
