In the future, I mean to be a fine streamside entomologist. I'm going to start on that when I am much too old to do any of the two thousand things I can think of that are more fun than screening insects in cold running water

Fishing should be a ceremony that reaffirms our place in the natural world and helps us resist further estrangement from our origins.

We both liked children; we just didn't want any ourselves. There were children everywhere, and we saw no reason to start our own brand. Young couples plunge into parenthood and about half the time they end up with some ghastly problem on their hands. We thought we'd leave that to others.

You can't say enough about fishing. Though the sport of kings, it's just what the deadbeat ordered.

Early on I decided that fishing would be my way of looking at the world. First it taught me to look at rivers. Lately it has been teaching me how to look at people, myself included.

The mountains paralleled the valley and the snowy peaks were extending with fall to the valley floor.

My life was the best omelette you could make with a chainsaw