Dave Whitlock
"The greatest
privilege of fishing is the obligation it puts upon you to be quietly
part of a world
we spend the rest of our lives
trying to defy, control or ignore."
Jeremy Paxman (Fish,
Fishing and the Meaninig of Life)
"Many a time have I
merely closed my eyes at the end of yet another troublesome day and
soaked my bruised
psyche in wild water, rivers remembered
and rivers imagined. Rivers course through my dreams, rivers cold
and fast, rivers well-known and rivers nameless, rivers that seem
like ribbons of blue water twisting through
wide valleys, narrow rivers folded in layers of darkening shadows,
rivers
that
have eroded down
deep into
the mountain's belly, sculpted the land, peeled back the planet's
history
exposing the
texture of time itself."
Harry Middleton (On
the Spine of Time)
"Only when
the last tree has been felled, the last river poisoned and the last
fish
caught,
man will know, that he cannot eat money."
Anonymous
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