The joys of fishing are not confined to the hours near the water.
You want to climb the mountain because it’s there and you know you can do it.
I like fishing as much when I don't catch anything as when I do.
Fishing is more than fish; it is the vitalizing lure to outdoor life.
The chase is among the best of all national pastimes; it cultivates that vigorous manliness for the lack of which in a nation, as in an individual, the possession of no other qualities can possibly atone.
I have learned that I am also a person who has to be able to go fishing whenever I can and for as long as I want to go. It is a silly thing, but there it is.
Birding, after all, is just a game. Going beyond that is what is important.
Climbing is an understated culture.
I have laid aside business, and gone a'fishing.
