When your consciousness has become ripe in true zazen-pure like clear water, like a serene mountain lake, not moved by any wind-then… — Matsuo Basho Copy Share Image
We are America's Great Lakes people, her freshwater people, not an oceanic but a continental people. Whenever I swim in an ocean,… — Kurt Vonnegut Copy Share Image
I like what Oliver Lakes does on the saxophone. The saxophone comes pretty close to the sound of the human voice and… — Yusef Komunyakaa Copy Share Image
The truth is, fish have very little sex life. If you have ever tried to make love under water, you will know… — Ed Zern 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
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
The beauty of a house by the lake side in the middle of wilderness can best be appreciated not by those who… — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
I want to qualify for the Tour Championship. Being a Georgia Tech grad, playing at East Lake would feel like home. — Matt Kuchar Copy Share Image
I'm convinced that the Great Lakes region will be at the center of an internally-focused North American economy when the hallucination of… — James Howard Kunstler Copy Share Image
No matter where I go - London, Beirut, Jerusalem, Washington, Beijing, or Bangalore - I'm always looking to rediscover that land of… — Thomas Friedman Copy Share Image
.. the long hour and a half walk-in to the secret pool , only to find four anglers filling it. Secret pools?… — Tony Bishop Copy Share Image
History is a state of yearning. I yearn for Kay Lake throughout this entire thing. There's an essay I've written where I… — James Ellroy Copy Share Image
Ayame: "Yuki, let's deepen the bond between us brothers!" Yuki: "Before you can do that I'll drown you in the deepest part… — Natsuki Takaya Copy Share Image
It didn't matter that there were actually two lakes there, ... It didn't matter that he had only $300 in his pocket.… — Theodore Hesburgh Copy Share Image
Now when Nile perch was introduced [into Lake Victoria], I don't think enough research was done; maybe it was done, maybe it… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
For me, the study of these laws is inseparable from a love of Nature in all its manifestations. The beauty of the… — Murray Gell-Mann Copy Share Image
And beyond the timeless meadows and emerald pastures, the rabbit holes and moss-covered oak and rowan trees and the "slippy sloppy" houses… — Susan Branch Copy Share Image
I have never seen white so absolute / And alone, glistening in awkward form / Dreaming across the water a bright path.… — John O'Donohue Copy Share Image
The little island seemed to float on the dark lake-waters. Trees grew on it, and a little hill rose in the middle… — Enid Blyton Copy Share Image
To-day Massachusetts; and the whole of the American republic, from the border of Maine to the Pacific slopes, and from the Lakes… — Horace Mann Copy Share Image
The idea for Maximum Ride come from the earlier books of mine called When the Wind Blows and The Lake House, which… — James Patterson Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the most impressive illustration of all is to suppose that you could label the molecules in a tumbler of water. ...… — Francis William Aston Copy Share Image
Is not the midnight like Central Africa to most of us? Are we not tempted to explore it,--to penetrate to the shores… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Another riveting one was Sterling Sharpe - mainly because everyone told me he's horrible. Sterling was playing in a golf tournament in… — Jeff Pearlman Copy Share Image
There is no more graceful and healthful accomplishment for a lady than fly-fishing, and there is no reason why a lady should… — William Cowper Prime 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
and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost vicious — Madeline Miller Copy Share Image
It's certain there are trout somewhere - And maybe I shall take a trout - but I do not seem to care. — William Butler Yeats 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
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
IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early… — Joanne Fluke Copy Share Image
In Switzerland, on a high mountain, not far from Lucerne, there is a lake they call Pilate's Pond, which the Devil has… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
When I turned to writing fantasy, and writing for young people, it was joyous. It was like discovering an underground lake of… — Laini Taylor Copy Share Image
I object to fishing tournaments less for what they do to fish than what they do to fishermen. — Ted Williams Copy Share Image
We are taught not to trust our own experiences. Great Salt Lake teaches me experience is all we have. — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Has it ever struck you that trout bite best on the Sabbath? God's critters tempting decent men. — James M. Barrie Copy Share Image
We have to fight them daily, lake fleas, those many small worries about the morrow, for they sap our energies. — Etty Hillesum Copy Share Image
It's an odd fact of life that whichever side of the stream you're on, two-thirds of the best water is out of… — John Gierach Copy Share Image
We told Stanley Roberts to go on a water diet, and Lake Superior disappeared. Pat Williams When Xavier McDaniel plays against Orlando… — Mychal Thompson Copy Share Image
As far as I can ascertain the reasons for missing a rising fish come from faulty reactions. When we miss a fish… — Ray Bergman Copy Share Image
![“Now when Nile perch was introduced [into Lake Victoria], I don't think enough research was done; maybe it was done, maybe it was not. But Nile perch is a huge fish. So it ate all the little fish, and it grew into a monster which the local people could not fish with their little boats and their…” quote by Wangari Maathai](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ce8/wangari-maathai-2479_boat_now-when-nile-perch-was-introduced-into_2397172.jpg)
