“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountain is going home; that wildness is necessity; that mountain parks and reservations are useful not only as fountains of timber and irrigating rivers, but as fountains of life.”


John Muir

Thursday, December 2, 2010

Quotes of the day.

“Don't tell fish stories where the people know you; but particularly, don't tell them where they know the fish.”

                                                 Mark Twain

“Luck affects everything. Let your hook always be cast; in the stream where you least expect it there will be a fish.”

                                                  Ovid

“It has always been my private conviction that any man who puts his intelligence up against a fish and loses had it coming.”

                                                  John Steinbeck

1 comment:

  1. Sometimes, well most of the time that second quote is fact.

    The Average Joe Flyfisherman
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