There's no excuse therefore, for a 1,152 page book. I think we should all be using 300-page paperbacks. These exist.
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 just staying home.
A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through which the lifeblood returns to the heart
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 has a thousand colors and a thousand shapes, yet it follows laws so definite that the tiniest streamlet is an exact replica of a great river.
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 can have only a lease, not ownership, of the earth; and one essential term of the lease is that the earth be handed down on to the next generation with unimpaired potentialities. This is the conservationist's concern.
Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them, but I can look up and see their beauty, believe in them, and try to follow where they lead.
You don't have to wait until people say they accept everything you say until you are actually prepared to sit down and discuss matters with them.
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The phone rang, picked up, and the same male voice announced, “Chris Powers. " "Hey there, Chris. Are you aware it's a felony to make threats over the phone?" To give Powers his fair due, he got over his shock within a split second. “Try it, asshole. I dare you. My lawyers will have you for lunch. ” He clicked off again. I did what any red-blooded American male would do. I called my big, ex-cop ex-boyfriend.