Presidents and presidential assassins are like Las Vegas and Salt Lake City. Even though one city is all about sin and the… — Sarah Vowell Copy Share Image
And connected I had been. When the fish changed directions, I felt it. when it slowed or sped up, I felt that… — Jessica Maxwell Copy Share Image
I have sat by night beside a cold lake And touched things smoother than moonlight on still water, But the moon on… — F. R. Scott Copy Share Image
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As a Michigan senator, I feel a special responsibility to protect the Great Lakes. They are not only a source of clean… — Debbie Stabenow Copy Share Image
Oh how will crime engender crime! throw guilt Upon the soul, and like a stone cast on The troubled waters of a… — George Colman the Elder Copy Share Image
What is most striking in the Maine wilderness is the continuousness of the forest, with fewer open intervals or glades than you… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
When I was a kid a growing up in Ontario, Canada, Lake Erie was so polluted, I never thought it would ever,… — Rick Danko Copy Share Image
The meditative angler is not exempt from sensational periods. There are times when all the uncertainty of his chosen pursuit seems to… — Henry Van Dyke Copy Share Image
I find that I have painted my life, things happening in my life - without knowing. After painting the shell and shingle… — Georgia O'Keeffe Copy Share Image
From the tower battlements, Dustfinger looked down on a lake as black as night, where the reflection of the castle swam in… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
When the dead do walk seek water's run, for this the Dead will always shun. Swift river's best or broadest lake to… — Garth Nix Copy Share Image
Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in… — Sylvester McCoy Copy Share Image
The only immortality we know of is our children, and in that unfinished story of the acts of lives, which, forever expanding,… — Raymond Cattell Copy Share Image
My dad was a big fan of comedy. He wanted to be a stand-up. He loved Lenny [Bruce]. He also loved Lord… — Judd Apatow Copy Share Image
Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The great fact in life, the always possible escape from dullness, was the lake. The sun rose out of it, the day… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
The time must come to all of us, who live long, when memory is more than prospect. An angler who has reached… — Edward Grey, 1st Viscount Grey of Fallodon Copy Share Image
Canada is a place of infinite promise. We like the people, and if one ever had to emigrate, this would be the… — John Maynard Keynes Copy Share Image
All the charm of the angler's life would be lost but for these hours of thought and memory. All along the brook,… — William Cowper Prime Copy Share Image
Watersheds come in families; nested levels of intimacy... As you work upstream toward home, you're more closely related. The big river is… — Michael Parfit Copy Share Image
Peter Lake had no illusions about mortality. He knew that it made everyone perfectly equal, and that the treasures of the earth… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
I go to Alaska and fish salmon. I do some halibut fishing, lake fishing, trout fishing, fly fishing. I look quite good… — Linda Hamilton Copy Share Image
I want to help others 'think first' before diving into a pool or lake to prevent these types of life-changing accidents. I… — Brooke Burns Copy Share Image
Men may dam it and say that they have made a lake, but it will still be a river. It will keep… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Whether being battered by the surf or swimming through the gentle undulating surface of lakes, I find inspiration in the movement of… — Janet Echelman Copy Share Image
Lake Baikal in Russia has 25 percent of the freshwater resources of the world. Sixty-five percent of the Russian ecosystems are in… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on… — Edmund Muskie Copy Share Image
If the graves of the thousands of victims who have fallen in the terrible wars of the two races had been placed… — Nelson A. Miles Copy Share Image
Tell me, how can I live without my Husband any longer? This is my first awakening thought each morning, and as I… — Mary Todd Lincoln Copy Share Image
That night we danced, I marked you as mine and I made it stick. There wasn’t a boy or a man on… — Lora Leigh Copy Share Image
It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the… — Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Copy Share Image
President David O. McKay put it beautifully when he said, speaking of mothers, 'This ability and willingness properly to rear children, the… — H. Burke Peterson Copy Share Image
There is an immense trout in Loch Awe in Scotland, which is so voracious, and swallows his own species with such avidity,… — Arnold Gingrich Copy Share Image
I had seen the ballet of 'Swan Lake' as a child but it was as an adult, when I saw a production… — Walter Dean Myers Copy Share Image
Before the world was made, when it was only darkness and mist and waters, God was well aware of Lake Wobegon, my… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Nile perch is a fish that was introduced into Lake Victoria. The reason that fish was introduced into Lake Victoria was because… — Wangari Maathai Copy Share Image
The lake was silent for some time. Finally, it said: "I weep for Narcissus, but I never noticed that Narcissus was beautiful.… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
A standard saying among fly fishermen is that trout spend anywhere from 80 to 90 percent of their time feeding below the… — Ed Engle 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
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