Monday, August 25, 2008

Nature Quotes #3


Hope is like a bird that senses the dawn and carefully starts to sing while it is still dark.
—Anonymous

All the romance of trout fishing exists in the mind of the angler and is in no way shared by the fish. —Harold F. Blaisdell
It has always been my private conviction that any man who pits his intelligence against a fish and loses has it coming. —John Steinbeck

We ask a simple question
And that is all we wish:
Are fishermen all liars?
Or do only liars fish?
—William Sherwood Fox, Silken Lines and Silver Hooks, 1954

Give a man a fish, and he can eat for a day. But teach a man how to fish, and he’ll be dead of mercury poisoning inside of three years.
—Charles Haas

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