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“The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a river is one of the veins of the land, not potential irrigation water; if a forest is a sacred grove, not timber; if other species are biological kin, not resources; or if the planet is our mother, not an opportunity -- then we will treat each other with greater respect. Thus is the challenge, to look at the world from a different perspective.”

“Boredom reigns on all levels. The rain is a welcome change. I have seen the pond swell and the creek surge. I press my palm against the glass, imagining the drops on my skin, imagining where they started out, where they will go, feeling them like a river, rushing, combining, becoming something greater than how they started out.”

Feelings Levels Greater Becoming Rain Rivers Skins Presses Glasses Welcome Boredom Reign Palms Rushing Ponds Combining Creeks Becoming Something

Book:The Adoration of Jenna Fox

Source: The Adoration of Jenna Fox

“The Knight in the triumph of his heart made several 6 reflections on thegreatness of the British Nation; as, that one Englishman could beat three Frenchmen; that we could never be in danger of Popery so long as we took care of our fleet; that theThames was thenoblest river in Europe; that London Bridge was a greater piece of work than any of the Seven Wonders of the World; with many other honest prejudices which naturally cleave to the heart of a true Englishman.”

“As President, I was able to save with the stroke of the pen a hundred million acres of wilderness area in Alaska. This is the kind of thing that is is gratifying to a President, but to be on a solitary stream with good friends, with a fly rod in your hand, and to have a successfull or even an unsuccessful day-they're all successful-is an even greater delight.”

Kind Hands Able President Millions Successful Greater Sea Hundred Areas Rivers Fishes Delight Boat Streams Lakes Fishing Wilderness Pens Solitary Good Friend Strokes Alaska Acres Unsuccessful

Author:Jimmy Carter

“It is you and clean, flowing water. It is you, inquisitive, in a wild world that is older than man, seeking greater understanding and finding not only an endless interest but a tranquility that comes, most of the time, to all nature?s wild creatures.”

Men World Understanding Interest Water Greater Sea Creatures Findings Rivers Clean Fishes Seeking Endless Boat Lakes Fishing Tranquility Inquisitive Flowing Water Wild Creatures Wild World

Book:Trout on a fly

Source: Trout on a fly

“False casting for practice is the best way to achieve the feel of the line in the air, but in actual fishing, false casts should be limited in number to absolute necessity. In the first place, the more false casts you make, the greater are the chances for the fish to see your arm waving, or the line in the air. And the greater are your chances to make a mistake in the cast and lose your timing. Most anglers, especially tyros, false cast too often. Three false casts should be sufficient for any throw and two is better. One is perfect.”

Source: Trout Fishing

“I simply feel that the frontier of angling is no longer either ethical or geographical. The Bible tells us to watch and listen. Something like this suggests what fishing ought to be about: using the ceremony of our sport and passion to arouse greater reverberations within ourselves.”

Feels Passion Sports Watches Greater Sea Ought Rivers Fishes Boat Lakes Fishing Ethical Ceremony Frontiers Angling Reverberation

Author:Thomas McGuane

“If you keep at it long enough, one day you may witness some greater disturbance, some rushing breach of the water's surface so startling and violent and exhilarating that you too will suddenly, and always thereafter, believe in monsters.”

Source: The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors

“You are killing me, fish, the old man thought. But you have a right to. Never have I seen a greater, or more beautiful, or a calmer or more noble thing than you, brother.”

Men Beautiful Greater Sea Brother Rivers Killing Fishes Noble Boat Lakes Fishing Old Man Calmer Fish In The Sea

Book:The Old Man and the Sea

Source: The Old Man and the Sea

“In that pleasant district of merry England which is watered by the river Don, there extended in ancient times a large forest, covering the greater part of the beautiful hills and valleys which lie between Sheffield and the pleasant town of Doncaster.”

Book Beautiful Lying Greater Rivers England Towns Ancient Forests Hills Pleasant Valleys Covering Merry Ancient Times Sheffield Hills And Valleys

Book:The Waverley Novels: In Twelve Volumes, Printed from the Latest English Editions, Embracing the Author's Last Corrections, Prefaces, and Notes

Source: The Waverley Novels: In Twelve Volumes, Printed from the Latest English Editions, Embracing the Author's Last Corrections, Prefaces, and Notes