A golf ball can stop in the fairway, rough, woods, bunker or lake. With five equally likely options, very few balls choose… — Jim Bishop Copy Share Image
I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap… — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
If you don't drink coffee, I am suspicious of your character and will not invite you to my Italian lake home. — George Clooney Copy Share Image
I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
The self is fundamentally an illusion arising as a reflection of the soul in matter, much as a clear lake at midnight… — Fred Alan Wolf 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
We do have to think seriously about conservation now, although it is chilling to realize there are catch-and-release fishermen alive today who… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
Contrary to common belief, it is not true that if you cut a worm-fisherman in half, each half will grow into a… — Ed Zern Copy Share Image
Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy,… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
I see an America whose rivers and valleys and lakes hills and streams and plains the mountains over our land and nature's… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
In the name of sense, man, if God made fish to be eaten, what difference does it make if I enjoy the… — William Cowper Prime 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
…the Lake of Shining Waters was blue — blue — blue; not the changeful blue of spring, nor the pale azure of… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Today we find ourselves faced with the imminent end of the era of cheap oil, the prospect (beyond the recent bubble) of… — Tim Jackson Copy Share Image
In Africa a thing is true at first light and a lie by noon and you have no more respect for it… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
You're from where?" "Lay'en. It's near Salt Lake City." "Spell that for me." "Um, that would be S-A-L-T-" "No, the other one.… — Shannon Hale Copy Share Image
I loved him in that moment, loved him more than I'd ever loved anyone, and I wanted to to tell them all… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
Different people call on [God] by different names: some as Allah, some as God, and others as Krishna, Siva, and Brahman. It… — Ramakrishna Copy Share Image
Shigure:"A summer home like this by the lake, you half expect JASON to show up!" Yuki: "There he goes again..." Kyo: (Thinking… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
It's so silly isn't it? how we grown men take up trout angling not simply to pursue trout but to find some… — Carey Mulligan Copy Share Image
The lakes are something which you are unprepared for; they lie up so high, exposed to the light, and the forest is… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
X. I saw pale kings and princes too, Pale warriors, death-pale were they all; They cried—“La Belle Dame sans Merci Hath thee… — John Keats Copy Share Image
When I was a young girl salmon fishing with my father in the Straits of Juan de Fuca in Washington State I… — Tess Gallagher Copy Share Image
The perfect life: to live in a world of peace in a lake district where the magistrate is good and honest, and… — Zhang Zhao Copy Share Image
If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the… — Bart Stupak Copy Share Image
The long morning shadows lay as still and dark as lakes and patterned the rough ground with straight margins. — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
That which we look on with unselfish love And true humility is surely ours, Even as a lake looks at the stars… — Mary Gardiner Brainard Copy Share Image
Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth. — Arthur Ransome Copy Share Image
For the true angler, fishing produces a deep,unspoken joy, born of longing for that which is quiet and peaceful, and fostered by… — Thaddeus Norris Copy Share Image
I hear lake water lapping with low sounds by the shore; While I stand on the roadway, or on the pavements gray,… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
Despite all the variables and advise, like love and marriage it seemed to me that learning to cast ought to be a… — Jessica Maxwell Copy Share Image
Many of the most highly publicized events of my presidency are not nearly as memorable or significant in my life as fishing… — Jimmy Carter 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
I want to go to New Zealand. I have no idea what it's like, and in my head, everyone lives in/on an… — Aubrey Plaza 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
Smile / to see the lake / lay / the still sky / And / out for an easy / make / the dragonfly. — Lorine Niedecker Copy Share Image
Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about. — Cotton Mather Copy Share Image
I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and… — Hermann Maier Copy Share Image
Yet compared with the serious things of life, fishing is after all rather trivial. The thoughtful angler must frankly confess this. — Harold Russell Copy Share Image