If you ever wondered why fishing is probably the most popular sport in this country, watch that boy beside on the water and you will learn. If you are really perceptive you will. For he already knows that fishing is only one part fish.

He who walks may see and understand. You can study all America from one hilltop, if your eyes are open and your mind is willing to reach. But first you must walk to that hill.

There are two seasonal diversions that can ease the bite of any winter. One is the January thaw. The other is the seed catalogues.

All our yesterdays are summarized in our now, and all the tomorrows are ours to shape.

Any river is really the summation of a whole valley. It shapes not only the land but the life and even the culture of that valley. To think of any river as nothing but water is to ignore the greater part of it.

To know after absence the familiar street and road and village and house is to know again the satisfaction of home.

If you would know strength and patience, welcome the company of trees.