Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish.

Calling fishing a hobby is like calling brain surgery a job.

Fishing is a quest for knowledge and wonder as much as a pursuit of fish; it is as much an acquaintance with beavers, dippers, and other fishermen as it is the challenge of catching trout.

I don't suppose I ever entirely release a fish. I may not eat it, but that does not mean I take nothing from it before I let it go.

When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

The issue of imitation has always occupied fly fishers, and part of its endless attraction has been the imponderable uncertainty of how much it matters to the fish in the first place.

As the old fisherman remarked after explaining the various ways to attach a frog to a hook, it's all the same to the frog.

Your principles are your true north because they instruct how you will handle every situation, especially when there is no easy choice.

I do not know about my life but i am sure about my death, i will die in rest because i have no credit of anyone on my soul

You should never act against yourself.

But the walls of my resolvemortared with stubbornnesshave been breached by circumstancesI cannot handle alone.

Every animal leaves traces of what it was man alone leaves traces of what he created.

What the hell have Greenpeace and WWF done? They are paid very good salaries and they float around the world saying, 'We are helping the world,' but they haven't.

Everything's a scandal. Dying's a scandal. But we all do it.

Count the day won, when the earth, turning on its axis, imposes no additional taxes

The most beautiful ape is ugly when compared to a human. The wisest human will seem like an ape when compared to a god with respect to wisdom, beauty, and everything else.

My friendship with the Steinway piano is one of the most important and beautiful things in my life.