You're more likely to drown in the sea of sameness than get eaten by a shark while navigating new waters..
No nation as rich as ours should have so many people isolated on islands of poverty in such a sea of material wealth..
How remarkable we are in our ability to hide things from ourselves - our conscious minds only a small portion of our actual minds, jellyfish floating….
When you are alone - at sea, in the polar dark - an absence can keep you alive. The one you love maintains your mind. But when she's merely across th….
The sea is as near as we come to another world..
I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and fling my arms wide to the sun….
I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic..
On the Firehole I caught thirty-six inches worth of trout - in six installments..
...water that isn't fit for trout won't much longer be fit for us..
A trout is a moment of beauty known only to those who seek it..
About the only certainty, other than uncertainty, in fly fishing is that a fly won't catch fish if it stays in its box..
Fishing is not like billiards, in which it is possible to attain a disgusting perfection..
Good fishermen know that in talking about fishing, nothing is more interesting than the truth..
Across the sea of space, the stars are other suns..
She glared at me like she was about to punch me, but then she did something that surprised me even more. She kissed me. "Be careful seaweed brain." S….
Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction..
Shrimp are the insects of the ocean. They're bottom feeders. So they're delicious, but they're the bugs of the sea..
And the wind that saddens, the sea that gladdens, Are singing the selfsame strain..
Could one live on the sense of beauty alone, exempt from the necessity of 'creature comforts,' a sea-voyage would be delightful..
Our ancestors took this land. They took it and made it and held it. We do not give up what our ancestors gave us. They came across the sea and they ….
The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of t….