By your late thirties the ground has begun to grow hard. It grows harder and harder until the day that it admits you.

Angling is extremely time consuming. That's sort of the whole point.

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

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

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.

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

The essence of sport is courage.