It is quite easy to debase the sport, change its values, dilute its ethics and destroy its traditional associations with quietness, relaxation and the opportunity to think. Angling is not a competitive sport. The fisherman'- s only real competition is with his quarry and his only real challenge is the challenge to himself. Nothing can add to this, but the blight of interhuman competition can certainly detract from it.
Roderick Haig-BrownI have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of men can have only a lease, not ownership, of the earth; and one essential term of the lease is that the earth be handed down on to the next generation with unimpaired potentialities. This is the conservationist's concern.
Roderick Haig-BrownA man should think when he fishing of all manner and shape of things, flowing as easily through the mind as the light stream among the rocks
Roderick Haig-BrownOur tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.
Roderick Haig-Brown