I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of men can have…

- Roderick Haig-Brown

Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.

- Roderick Haig-Brown

I have never seen a river that I could not love. Moving water... has a fascinating vitality. It has power and grace and associations. It has a thousa…

- Roderick Haig-Brown

A river is water is its loveliest form; rivers have life and sound and movement and infinity of variation, rivers are veins of the earth through whic…

- Roderick Haig-Brown

There will be days when the fishing is better than one's most optimistic forecast, others when it is far worse. Either is a gain over just staying ho…

- Roderick Haig-Brown

I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to the fly, but by the colour and mo…

- Roderick Haig-Brown

A man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks

- Roderick Haig-Brown

Anglers...exaggerate grossly and make gentle and inoffensive creatures sound like wounded buffalo and man-eating tigers.

- Roderick Haig-Brown

I have two hopes for the future. The first and lesser one is that game commissions will one day have sense enough to set limits that measurably refle…

- Roderick Haig-Brown