I do have a ridiculously high hedonic set-point.

Living there [Horse Mesa] was like living in a natural cathedral. Waking up every morning, you walked outside and looked down at the blue lake, then ….

The sporting qualities of a fish are dependent neither on its size nor its weight, but on the effort of concentration, the skill and mastery the fish….

Somewhere in the wide range of activity between the hard physical effort of wading for long hours against a swift current in a rocky stream, casting ….

...in rebellion against the typical British-type dry flies, I created the Wulff series..

There will be no end to angling controversies for there is no one best way for everyone to fish..

Maybe when I stop making movies, I'll understand my work better..

No one is ever going to be as good as I was.

The peerless cup afloat Of the lake-lily is an urn some nymph Swims bearing high above her head..

What belongs to someone, belongs to someone..

Of all nature's animated kingdoms, fish are the most unchristian, inhospitable, heartless, and cold-blooded of creatures..

I'm so sorry - we had this cottage up in Lake Maxinkuckee, in Culver. I've thought so often of the poor Pottawattomies we took this land away from. T….

The trout in yonder wimpling burn - That glides, a silver dart, - And, safe beneath the shady thorn, - Defies the anglers art..

That which we look on with unselfish love And true humility is surely ours, Even as a lake looks at the stars above And makes within itself a h….

It is costly wisdom that is brought by experience..

Nothing is so discreet as a young face, for nothing is less mobile; it has the serenity, the surface smoothness, and the freshnessof a lake. There is….

Faith is learned through life..

Not in innocence, and not in Asia, was mankind born. The home of our fathers was that African highland reaching north from the Cape to the Lakes of t….

As evening approached, I came down from the heights of the island, and I liked then to go and sit on the shingle in some secluded spot by the lake; t….

We don't choose what's going to wake us up..

Forgiveness frees the forgiver..