Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water.

And it's impossible for me to read Henry James.

When I go fishing I like to know that there's nobody within five miles of me.

Landscape is my religion. ...God in a green legend, I lean over the pool In a testament of leaves. I dangle my twinkling mood Before me in a cool cave roofed with branches And floored with a skin of water.

In fact a lot of them I think are absolute baloney. Those Charles Olsens and people like that. At first I was interested in seeing what they were up to, what they were doing, why they were doing it. They never moved me in the way that one is moved by true poetry.

But I hang on to books. I love them. I even think they're very nice decor in a room - far better than paintings... That's not quite true!

I used to fish the Border rivers, but nowadays you have to queue up for a shot and I can't stand that.