Fish Quote by Henry David Thoreau

Time is but the stream I go fishing in. I drink at it, but while I drink I see the sandy bottom and detect…

— Henry David Thoreau

Time is a stream which glides smoothly on and is past before we know.

— Ovid

The fishermen say that the "thundering of the pond" scares the fishes and prevents their biting.

— Henry David Thoreau

It is good even to be a fisherman in summer and in winter.

— Henry David Thoreau

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 reach on…

— John Gierach

“Let us spend one day as deliberately as Nature, and not be thrown off the track by every nutshell and mosquito's wing that falls…

— Henry David Thoreau

Instead of the scream of a fish hawk scaring the fishes, is heard the whistle of the steam-engine, arousing a country to its progress.

— Henry David Thoreau

Man needs to know but little more than a lobster in order to catch him in his traps.

— Henry David Thoreau

It enhances our sense of the grand security and serenity of nature to observe the still undisturbed economy and content of the fishes of…

— Henry David Thoreau

Fishing has been styled 'a contemplative man's recreation,' ... and science is only a more contemplative man's recreation.

— Henry David Thoreau

The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled "a contemplative…

— Henry David Thoreau

I thought, as I have my living to get, and have not eaten today, that I might go a- fishing. That's the true industry…

— Henry David Thoreau