...secretly I lament the hundreds [of fish] we never caught because we forever persisted in fishing only the likliest holding water. — Tom Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from… — Robert Ardrey Copy Share Image
Intercourse is after all man's best teacher. "Know thyself" is an excellent maxim; but even self-knowledge cannot be perfected in closets and… — William Matthews Copy Share Image
No lake is beautiful without the sky, without the mist or without the trees and the autumn leaves! No beauty is beautiful… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I think that what I was talking about was that as a woman growing up in a Mormon tradition in Salt Lake… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent. — Paul Schullery Copy Share Image
Living at a beach, near a river mouth, taught him the impotence of impatience at events moving at nature's pace. — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
Eating alone is a disappointment. But not eating matter more, is hollow and green, has thorns like a chain of fish hooks,… — Pablo Neruda Copy Share Image
I think it's mental to pay for water. Where is that water coming from? Are they in the hills puttin' it into… — Karl Pilkington Copy Share Image
The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the… — Robert Burns Copy Share Image
Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold,… — Andrew Carnegie Copy Share Image
Come down, O Christ, and help me! reach thy hand, For I am drowning in a stormier sea Than Simon on thy… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Let us not compare the genius with the clever; ocean with the lake! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
The dream is everything in the sport of fishing. You dream with every cast of your fly that the shadowy form will… — Christopher Lehmann-Haupt Copy Share Image
People conquered on different sides of the lake should be ruled on different sides of the lake. — Genghis Khan Copy Share Image
The purpose of a fishing trip is not to catch fish. Bringing home meat is important, but it is more symbolic than… — Paul G. Quinnett Copy Share Image
If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated… — Jack Ohman Copy Share Image
I celebrated [my 50th birthday] by throwing a big bowl on the pottery wheel, then going for a water ski at the… — Marcia Gay Harden Copy Share Image
No lake so still but it has its wave. No circle so perfect but that it has its blur. I would change… — Confucius Copy Share Image
The nuclear capability of Israel has resulted from this conspiracy, which provided for the highjacking of 200 tons of ore in 1968.… — Mae Brussell Copy Share Image
As soon as you think of fishing you think of things that don't belong to the modern world. The very idea of… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
There's magic in the water that draws all men away form the land, that leads them over hills, down creeks and streams… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image