Lakes Quotes
The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.
Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds.
I saw a seagull hanging out by a lake, but I said, "Don't worry, Dude. I won't say anything."
People conquered on different sides of the lake should be ruled on different sides of the lake.
I was born in 1940 in Minnesota and grew up in the country... dirt roads, swamps, lakes, woods.
Maybe your stature as a fly fisherman isn't determined by how big a trout you can catch, but by how small a trout you can catch without being disappointed.
The trouble with weather forecasting is that it's right too often for us to ignore it and wrong too often for us to rely on it.
I'm an old-fashioned guy... I want to be an old man with a beer belly sitting on a porch, looking at a lake or something.
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.
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.
I used to like fishing because I thought it had some larger significance. Now I like fishing because it's the one thing I can think of that probably doesn't.
Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
The best fisherman I know try not to make the same mistakes over and over again; instead they strive to make new and interesting mistakes and to remember what they learned from them.
The truth is, I can never die. For I will be in everything and see you in everything and watch over you. I am your reaction in the water of a mountain lake
Our air, water, soil, forests, oceans, rivers, lakes, scenic beauty, wildlife habitat, minerals, that is the wealth of the country.
They say fish should swim thrice * * * first it should swim in the sea (do you mind me?) then it should swim in butter, and at last, sirrah, it should swim in good claret.
The evening advanced. The shadows lengthened. The waters of the lake grew pitchy black. The gliding of the ghostly swans became rare and more rare.
Technical things are getting more mechanical. Take 'Swan Lake,' the Black Swan pas de deux. Now, my goodness, they're turning not just 32 fouettes - but double or triple pirouettes.
Many drops make a bucket, many buckets make a pond, many ponds make a lake, and many lakes make an ocean.
Our concept of a family holiday was going to a guest house in the Lake district or Wales, where walking was part of the holiday.
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 the other side.
Rivers and the inhabitants of the watery element were made for wise men to contemplate, and fools to pass by without consideration.
Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.
A field of water betrays the spirit that is in the air. It is continually receiving new life and motion from above. It is intermediate in its nature between land and sky.
Most of the world is covered by water. A fisherman's job is simple: Pick out the best parts.
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.
If you've got short, stubby fingers and wear reading glasses, any relaxation you would normally derive from fly fishing is completely eliminated when you try to tie on a fly.
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, especially in Cleveland.
It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great blue herons, the bald eagles, the salmon, that we are sorry.
I conquered a fear of heights and water by bungee jumping from a crane over a lake. And if thats not crazy enough, I also wrestled a greased pig in a mud pit.
The world is not a solid continent of facts sprinkled by a few lakes of uncertainties, but a vast ocean of uncertainties speckled by a few islands of calibrated and stabilized forms
In a pond koi can reach lengths of eighteen inches. Amazingly, when placed in a lake, koi can grow to three feet long. The metaphor is obvious. You are limited by how you see the world.
Man can learn a lot from fishing - when the fish are biting no problem in the world is big enough to be remembered.
Poetry is like standing on the edge of a lake on a moonlit night and the light of the moon is always pointing straight at you.
In a puddle, ask for a pool; in a pool, ask for a lake; in a lake, ask for an ocean. This is the way for a frog to reach the stars!
You've got to think lucky. If you fall into a mudhole, check your back pocket - you might have caught a fish
