Roderick Haig-Brown Quotes
- I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It…
- I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.
- There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over…
- Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.
- I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of men…
- Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.
- Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.
- A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.
- I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel.