Enjoy these quotable quotes about the outdoors:
“Astronomers wait, sometimes their whole lives, to observe one moment of celestial singularity that will connect them forever to the cosmos. Fishermen experience that moment often, the instant a fish becomes known and its mystery resolved. Out of dark waters comes something unknown and suddenly revealed.”
Ross Kushner
“How could our hearts be large enough for heaven if they are not large enough for earth? The only country I am certain of is the one here below. The only paradise I know is the one lit by our everyday sun, this land of difficult love, shot through with shadow.”
Scott Russell Sanders
“Soon the lights will go out, the coffeepots will finally let their shoulders sag, and the tree will release the breath it has been holding all night.”
John Schell
“There is never any identification needed on a country phone; the person on the other end knows who is talking by the sound of the voice and the character of the questions.”
E.B. White
“A crush is a constellation. Discover a few shining points amidst the black, and let your imagination seep, filling the empty space.”
Brittany Miller
CLASSIC QUOTES
“There is no use in your walking 5 miles to fish when you can depend on being just as unsuccessful near home.”
Mark Twain
“But every day, now more than ever, I am grateful for wild things and native places, for grasses and brilliant maples, and for stars.”
Rev. Victoria Safford
“In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.”
Norman Maclean
“Old dogs teach. That’s perhaps the first truly important lesson a dog man learns, but he doesn’t learn it overnight. And when man and dog both learn important lessons about a new situation, both rise to new heights of hunting bliss.”
David Foster
“The true fisherman approaches the first day of fishing with all the sense of wonder and awe of a child approaching Christmas. There is the same ecstatic counting of the days; the same eager and palpitate preparations; the same loving drafting of lists…”
Robert Traver
“A longer name allows more room to use a variety of inflections in speaking to the pups – and animals, like some pretty young girls I vaguely remember, care much less about what is said that about how it is said.”
Tred Slough
“Perhaps the greatest satisfaction on the first day of the season is the knowledge in the evening that the whole of the rest of the season is to come.”
Arthur Ransome
