“... it takes several years of serious fishing before a man learns enough to go through a whole season with an unblemished record of physical and spiritual anguish.” MenYearsEnoughWholeSpiritualRecordsSeaSeriousRiversSeasonsFishesBoatLakesFishingAnguish Author:Ed Zern
“As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.” WorldDoeSpiritualExistenceSeaLandMankindEmotionalDependsRiversLakesFarmersFishermanBeauty Of The World Author:Ansel Adams
“The thrill of a fish at the end of the line, that thing that sparks from the dark water to spinal cord, is a vestige of an archetypal joy that has to do with sustenance, material and spiritual.” EndsSpiritualJoyWaterLinesDarkSeaMaterialsRiversFishesBoatLakesFishingSparksThrillCordsSustenanceSpinal CordDark Water Book:A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge Source: A Fly Fisherman's Blue Ridge