Just try to imagine what it would be like to be 300 million years old.
I don't regard nature as a spectator sport.
The truth is, fish have very little sex life. If you have ever tried to make love under water, you will know why.
I make it a rule never to weigh or measure a fish I've caught, but simply to estimate its dimensions as accurately as possible, and then, when telling about it, to improve these figures by roughly a fifth, or twenty percent. I do this mainly because most people believe all fishermen exaggerate by at least twenty percent, and so I allow for the discounting my audience is almost certain to apply.
Fly fishermen are born honest, but they get over it.
The best time to go fishing is when you can
I get all the truth I need in the newspaper every morning, and every chance I get I go fishing, or swap stories with fishermen to get the taste of it out of my mouth.
This is not really currency that circulates. It's like the old joke about expensive vintage wine. Wine prices will go up and once in a while somebody will buy a 50-year-old bottle of wine and say, "Wait a minute. This has gone bad. " The answer is, "Well, that wine isn't for drinking; that's for trading. " These $100 bills aren't meant to circulate. They're not to spend on goods and services. They're a store of value. They're a form of saving.
For me, if the music is good, whether the artist is famous or unknown, I love being part of the music and contributing what I can to the bass end.
What I love I destroy. What I destroy, I love.
Find a teacher and devote yourself to the study, but in a balanced way, not a fanatical way.