Top Lakes Quotes Collection
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Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.Collection: Lakes
No life is so happy and so pleasant as the life of the well-govern'd angler.Collection: Lakes
Doubt not but angling will prove to be so pleasant that it will prove to be, like virtue, a reward to itself.Collection: Lakes
I bought my wife a new car. She called and said, "There is water in the carburetor." I said, "Where's the car?" She said, "In the lake."Collection: Lakes
Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.Collection: Lakes
The beauty of a lake reflects the beauty around it. When the mind is still, the beauty of the Self is seen reflected in it.Collection: Lakes
and when he moved it was like watching oil spread across a lake, smooth and fluid, almost viciousCollection: Lakes
There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.Collection: Lakes
He could hardly lift his spoon during breakfast, and then he was out on the lake, his spoon soon replaced by a shovel.Collection: Lakes
The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.Collection: Lakes
Ugly ducklings don't turn into swans and glide off down the lake. Whether your sunglasses are on or off, you only see the world you make.Collection: Lakes
And beyond the timeless meadows and emerald pastures, the rabbit holes and moss-covered oak and rowan trees and the "slippy sloppy" houses of frogs, the woodland-scented wind rushed between the leaves and blew around the gray veil that dipped below the fells, swirling up in a mist, blurring the edges of the distant forest. (View from Windermere in the Lake District)Collection: Lakes
To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population.Collection: Lakes
Our Great Lakes, harbors, ports, and rivers provide not only vital resources for us to live, but an entire maritime way of life for so many people. The least we can do is protect it, and the way of life it provides for so many.Collection: Lakes
We must keep these waters for wild rice, these trees for maple syrup, our lakes for fish, and our land and aquifers for all of our relatives - whether they have fins, roots, wings, or paws.Collection: Lakes
IT was the time of day when Lake Eden residents decided it was too late for a breakfast cookie and too early for a lunch cookie.Collection: Lakes
. . perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.Collection: Lakes
Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection.Collection: Lakes
Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth.Collection: Lakes
I recognized everything, the waterfall and the lakes, the trees and paths. But they had forgotten me. That was bitter and I cried a lot. One should never return to sacred places.Collection: Lakes
God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found,! As if the world were in deep waters drowned.Collection: Lakes
Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.Collection: Lakes
While working with a camera crew supervising flight testing of advanced aircraft at Edward's Air Force Base, California, the camera crew filmed the landing of a strange disc object that flew in over their heads and landed on a dry lake nearby. A camera crewman approached the saucer, it rose up above the area and flew off at a speed faster than any known aircraft.Collection: Lakes
Speech is as a pump, by which we raise and pour out the water from the great lake of Thought,--whither it flows back again.Collection: Lakes
Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytimeCollection: Lakes
It is difficult to understand why statisticians commonly limit their inquiries to Averages, and do not revel in more comprehensive views. Their souls seem as dull to the charm of variety as that of the native of one of our flat English counties, whose retrospect of Switzerland was that, if its mountains could be thrown into its lakes, two nuisances would be got rid of at once.Collection: Lakes
A trout fisherman is something that defieth understanding.Collection: Lakes
My paintings repeat a feeling about Lake Michigan, or water, or fields...it's more like a poem...and that's what I want to paint.Collection: Lakes
Ye monsters of the bubbling deep, Your Maker's praises spout; Up from the sands ye codlings peep, And wag your tails about.Collection: Lakes
A fisherman is always hopeful -- nearly always more hopeful than he has any right to be.Collection: Lakes
... To this day I would rather see a fish, creep up to him and watch his rise to my fly than catch half a dozen fish unseen until they take.Collection: Lakes
The great fish eat the small.Collection: Lakes
I am never, never, sick at sea. What never? No never! What never? Hardly ever.Collection: Lakes
Who doesn’t have a polo shirt? Only somebody from, like, Lake Minnetonka.Collection: Lakes
If the Poe Lock were ever rendered unusable due to a terrorist attack or natural disaster, it would halt commerce on the Great Lakes and these industries would be helpless.Collection: Lakes
Never leave fish to find fish.Collection: Lakes
Most fishermen swiftly learn that it's a pretty good rule never to show a favorite spot to any fisherman you wouldn't trust with your wife.Collection: Lakes
Datin'is a lot like fishin'. Sometimes catch and release is the best method.Collection: Lakes
They used to have a fish on the menu that was smoked, grilled and peppered They did everything to this fish but pistol-whip it and dress it in Bermuda shorts.Collection: Lakes
A sly old fish, too cunning for the hook.Collection: Lakes
It is a fact that scientists have deposited dye in certain lakes around Orlando and tracked the effluent to Florida Bay. There is a lake near Everglades City, Deep Lake, and large tarpon show up in that lake, 30 miles from the sea.Collection: Lakes
The world turns softly / Not to spill its lakes and rivers.Collection: Lakes
The fishing was good; it was the catching that was bad.Collection: Lakes
Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.Collection: Lakes
I am shocked, truly shocked. I was in Siberia a few weeks ago, and I am now just back in from the field in Alaska. The permafrost is melting fast all over the Arctic, lakes are forming everywhere and methane is bubbling up out of them.Collection: Lakes
A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it.Collection: Lakes
The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.Collection: Lakes
About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box.Collection: Lakes
...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us.Collection: Lakes
On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments.Collection: Lakes