Quotes by Lakes Things like that happen all the time in this great big world of ours. It's like taking a boat out on a beautiful lake on a beautiful day and thinking both the sky and the lake are beautiful. So stop eating yourself up alive. Things will go where they're supposed to go if you just let them take their natural course. Haruki Murakami lakes beautiful thinking Perfect sincerity and transparency make a great part of beauty, as in dewdrops, lakes, and diamonds. Henry David Thoreau sincerity lakes perfect The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, andagain, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him. Henry David Thoreau names lakes native-american Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life. Herbert Hoover fishing sea lakes Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers. Herbert Hoover fishing sea lakes Fishing is a... discipline in the equality of men - for all men are equal before fish. Herbert Hoover sea lakes men I planned to stop in 2002 after the Salt Lake City Olympics. I felt able to remain competitive another four years, and I wanted to stop while I'm still at the top. Hermann Maier cities lakes years It was necessary to organize my career to remain at the top level until Salt Lake City. Hermann Maier careers cities lakes Presidents have only two moments of personal seclusion. One is prayer; the other fishing - and they cannot pray all the time! Herbert Hoover prayer sea lakes Next to prayer, Fishing is the most personal relationship of man. Herbert Hoover prayer lakes men Her pupils have taken on a lonely hue, like grey clouds reflected in a calm lake. Haruki Murakami lonely taken lakes No prosaic description can portray the grandeur of 40 miles of rugged mountains rising beyond a placid lake in which each shadowy precipice and each purple gorge is reflected with a vividness that rivals the original. Herbert Hoover purple mountain lakes The world turns softly Not to spill its lakes and rivers, The water is held in its arms And the sky is held in the water. What is water, That pours silver, And can hold the sky? Hilda Conkling lakes rain sky The world turns softly / Not to spill its lakes and rivers. Hilda Conkling lakes rivers world Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures. Herman Melville fishing sea lakes I am no more lonely than the loon in the pond that laughs so loud, or than Walden Pond itself. What company has that lonely lake,I pray? Henry David Thoreau lonely lakes laughing Fish in the water represent pure potential. If the water is not clear, we do not know if they exist at all. To get them to bite something connected to a line and pull them into our world is managing a birth that brings these creatures from the realm of mysytery into the world of reality. It is a kind of creation. Howell Raines our-world lakes reality Fly fishing is the most beautiful way of trying to catch a fish; not the most efficient, just as ballet is the most beautiful way of moving the body between between two points, not the most direct. Fly fishing is to fishing as ballet is to walking. Howell Raines lakes beautiful moving I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go. It is a silly thing, but there it is. Howell Raines lakes silly rivers Whether we live by the seaside, or by the lakes and rivers, or on the prarie, it concerns us to attend to the nature of fishes, since they are not phenomena confined to certain localities only, but forms and phases of the life in nature universally dispersed. The countless shoals which annually coast the shores of Europe and America are not so interesting to the student of nature as the more fertile law itselffrom which it results that they may be found in water in so many places, in greater or lesser numbers. Henry David Thoreau europe-and-america nature lakes «89101112131415161718»