“Let us not make our gazes meet,
and lot's never smile at each other,
for who am I? but a mere stranger..”
“I propose that it only matters that you attempt to catch a fish. Doing so brings you close to nature.”
Source: A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
“Could an angler go fishing without a fishing rod, line and hook? It depends what they’re fishing for.”
Source: A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
“Angling is just a way of relaxing and escaping in the countryside.”
Source: A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
“The act of fishing – for fish, dreams or whatever magic is available – is enough. It transports us to a special world, and a state of mind, where we are free.”
Source: A Meaningful Life - Fennel's Journal - No. 1
“Traditional angling is the antithesis of the modern specimen angling scene.”
Source: Wild Carp: Fennel's Journal No. 4
“Traditional angling is to escape the noise and one-upmanship of modern angling in favour of something simple and beautiful.”
Source: Wild Carp: Fennel's Journal No. 4
“Commanding his domain on top of the world, Crater Lake sits in brooding blue and bold relief against an unsympathetic sky, the water like a solid, weighty mass anchored at the earth’s core. The winds are unforgiving, the clouds hostile, the hidden shoreline mysterious.”
Source: Freedom's Rush: Tales from The Biker and The Beast
“Holy gods. He'd frozen the whole damn lake. He was THAT powerful?”
Source: Heir of Fire
“I have an immoderate passion for water; for the sea, though so vast, so restless, so beyond one's comprehension; for rivers, beautiful, yet fugitive and elusive; but especially for marshes, teeming with all that mysterious life of the creatures that haunt them. A marsh is a whole world within a world, a different world, with a life of its own, with its own permanent denizens, its passing visitors, its voices, its sounds, its own strange mystery.”
Source: The House of Madame Tellier and Other Stories