“It seemed a strange thing to him, when earth was earth and rain was rain, that scrawny pines should grow in the scrub, while by every branch and lake and river there grew magnolias. Dogs were the same everywhere, and oxen and mules and horses. But trees were different in different places.” ShouldDifferentEarthGrowsTreeDogStrangeGrewRainRiversHorseBranchesLakesDifferent PlaceStrange ThingsMulesMagnoliasOxen Book:The Yearling Source: The Yearling
“Reelfoot is, and has always been, a lake of mystery.In places it is bottomless. Other places the skeletons of the cypress-trees that went down when the earth sank, still stand upright so that if the sun shines from the right quarter, and the water is less muddy than common, a man, peering face downward into its depths, sees, or thinks he sees, down below him the bare top-limbs upstretching like drowned men's fingers, all coated with the mud of years and bandaged with pennons of the green lake slime.” IfsThinkingMenYearsStillsEarthFacesWaterCommonSunMysteryTreeGreenShiningFingersDepthLakesQuartersMudLimbsSkeletonsMuddySun ShinesSlimeCypressesCypress Trees Author:Irvin S. Cobb
“[W]atching ducks land on a lake in Arkansas in the winter is about the closest to Heaven as you can find on this earth... and as someone who believes, according to my faith, I will go to Heaven when I die, I am pretty sure that there is duck hunting in Heaven!” BelieveEarthDiesHeavenLandWinterLakesHuntingDucksClosestArkansasI Am PrettyDuck Hunting Author:Mike Huckabee
“A fish, which you can't see, deep down in the water, is a kind of symbol of peace on earth, good will to yourself. Fishing gives a man ... some time to collect his thoughts and reaarange them kind of neatly, in an orderly fashion. Once the bait is on the hook and the boat is anchored, there's nothing to interfere with thinking except an occasional bite” ThinkingMenGivingKindEarthWaterSeaFashionRiversFishesBoatSymbolsLakesFishingBitesInterfereHookGood WillOccasionalPeace On EarthDeep DownOrderlyBait Author:Robert Ruark
“God quickened in the Sea and in the Rivers, So many fishes of so many features, That in the waters we may see all Creatures; Even all that on the earth is to be found,! As if the world were in deep waters drowned.” IfsWorldMayEarthFoundWaterSeaCreaturesRiversFishesBoatFeaturesLakesFishingDeep Water Author:Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas
“I learned to look up suddenly from a hatch or feeding frenzy and find myself momentarily removed from solid earth. I go fishing not to find myself but to lose myself” LooksEarthLosesSeaRiversFishesBoatLook UpLakesFishingFeedingFrenzy Author:Joseph Monninger
“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” HeartEarthFormSoundWaterSeaMovementReturnRiversFishesBoatLakesFishingInfinityVeinsVariation Author:Roderick Haig-Brown
“The river is of the earth and it is free. It is rigorously embanked and bound, and yet it is free. To hell with restraint, it says, I have got to be going. It will grind out its dams. It will go over or around them. They will become pieces.” EarthHellPiecesSeaRiversBoundsFishesBoatLakesFishingRestraintGrindDams Book:Leavings: Poems Source: Leavings: Poems