America is a great story and there is a river on every page of it.

The everyday kindness of the back roads more than makes up for the acts of greed in the headlines.

When I worked in Los Angeles covering hard news, very often when something important would happen I'd be off in the woods covering something unimportant, which was more interesting to me.

I don't think one should ever come to my stage of life and have to look back and say, Gosh. I wish I hadn't spent all those years doing that job I was never really interested in.

Good teachers know how to bring out the best in students.

That was the overwhelming thing to me, the joy of carrying my portable typewriter to an event and trying to describe it.

Often I have been exhausted on trout streams, uncomfortable, wet, cold, briar scarred, sunburned, mosquito bitten, but never, with a fly rod in my hand have I been less than in a place that was less than beautiful.