Lakes Quotes - Page 29

• As we lay huddled together under the tent, which leaked considerably about the sides, with our baggage at our feet, we listened to some of the grandest thunder which I ever heard, -rapid peals, round and plump, bang, bang, bang in succession, like artillery from some fortress in the sky; and the lightning was proportionally brilliant. The Indian said, 'It must be good powder.' All for the benefit of the moose and us, echoing far over the concealed lakes.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Sky, Feet, Together

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• As a writer you're holding a dog. You let the dog run about. But you finally can pull him back. Finally, I'm in control. But the great excitement is to see what happens if you let the whole thing go. And the dog or the character really runs about, bites everyone in sight, jumps up trees, falls into lakes, gets wet, and you let that happen. That's the excitement of writing plays-to allow the thing to be free but still hold the final leash.

  Harold Pinter

  Running, Dog, Fall

  Interview with Anne-Marie Cusac, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. December 26, 2008.

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• Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

  Laozi

  Inspirational, Sea, Fishing

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• The still lake without ripples is an image of our minds at ease, so full of unlimited friendliness for all the junk at the bottom of the lake that we don't feel the need to churn up the waters just to avoid looking at what's there.

  Pema Chodron

  Respect, Water, Mind

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• The pilot of the Galilean lake; Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

  John Milton

  Keys, Two, Iron

  'Lycidas' (1638) l. 108

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• Men need to know the elemental challenges that sea and mountains present. They need to know what it is to be alive and to survive when great storms come. They need to unlock the secrets of streams, lakes, and canyons and to find how these treasures are veritable storehouses of inspiration. They must experience the sense of mastery of adversity. They must find a peak or a ridge that they can reach under their own power alone.

  William O. Douglas

  Inspiration, Adversity, Men

  WILLIAM O. DOUGLAS (1960). “My Wilderness THE PACIFIC WEST”

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• Rise free from care before the dawn and seek adventure. Let the noon find you by other lakes, and the night overtake thee everywhere at home. There are no larger fields than these, no worthier games than may here be played.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Inspiring, Home, Adventure

  Henry David Thoreau (2016). “Walden”, p.149, Xist Publishing

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• The Almighty has been pleased to grant us a signal victory on Lake Champlain in the capture of one Frigate, one Brig and two sloops of war of the enemy.

  Thomas Macdonough

  War, Two, Enemy

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• Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime

  Jimmy Cannon

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• Only those become weary of angling who bring nothing to it but the idea of catching fish.

  Rafael Sabatini

  Sea, Fishing, Ideas

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• Just as the Salt Lake Temple took 40 years to build, stone by stone, you are building a virtuous life, step by step.

  Mary N. Cook

  Years, Stones, Salt

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• Every great decision creates ripples. Like a huge boulder dropping in a lake. The ripples merge and rebound off the banks in unforseeable ways. The heavier the decision, the larger the waves, the more uncertain the consequences.

  Sylvester McCoy

  Decision, Boulders, Way

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• The traveler fancies he has seen the country. So he has, the outside of it at least; but the angler only sees the inside. The angler only is brought close, face to face with the flower and bird and insect life of the rich riverbanks, the only part of the landscape where the hand of man has never interfered.

  Charles Kingsley

  Country, Flower, Men

  Charles Kingsley (2008). “Prose Idylls: New and Old: Easyread Super Large 18pt Edition”, p.32, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Everyone always wants new things. Everybody likes new inventions, new technology. People will never be replaced by machines. In the end, life and business are about human connections. And computers are about trying to murder you in a lake. And to me the choice is easy.

  Steve Carell

  Technology, People, Choices

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• The fish is not so much your quarry as your partner.

  Arnold Gingrich

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

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• I’m not much of a fly tier. I can do it—my friend calls it 'ham and eggs tying'—and I tie some cool flies that I can’t buy in a fly shop, but other than that, I would no more sit down and tie a dozen hopper patterns than I would do something absolutely insane, like build a rod.

  Jack Ohman

  Sea, Fishing, Eggs

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• When we are on the water, our contemplative impulses range from the intense to the nearly absent.

  Paul Schullery

  Sea, Fishing, Rivers

  Paul Schullery, Marsha Karle (2013). “The Fishing Life: An Angler's Tales of Wild Rivers and Other Restless Metaphors”, p.126, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Yoga says instinct is a trace of an old experience that has been repeated many times and the impressions have sunk down to the bottom of the mental lake. Although they go down, they aren’t completely erased. Don’t think you ever forget anything. All experiences are stored in the chittam; and, when the proper atmosphere is created, they come to the surface again. When we do something several times it forms a habit. Continue with that habit for a long time, and it becomes your character. Continue with that character and eventually, perhaps in another life, it comes up as instinct.

  Swami Satchidananda

  Yoga, Character, Thinking

  "Integral Yoga: The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali" by Swami Satchidananda, p. 108, December 1, 1984.

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• Money doesn't grow on trees but it does hang out in lakes

  Alex Gaskarth

  Tree, Doe, Hanging Out

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• The world turns softly / Not to spill its lakes and rivers.

  Hilda Conkling

  Rivers, World, Turns

  Hilda Conkling (1929). “Poems by a Little Girl”, p.14, Library of Alexandria

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• That which we look on with unselfish love
  And true humility is surely ours,
  Even as a lake looks at the stars above
  And makes within itself a heaven of stars.

  Mary Gardiner Brainard

  Stars, Humility, Heaven

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• Towards thee I roll, thou all-destroying but unconquering whale... from hell's heart I stab at thee.

  Herman Melville

  Heart, Whales, Sea

  Moby Dick ch. 135 (1851)

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• Do men who have got all their marbles go swimming in lakes with their clothes on?

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Swimming, Men, Clothes

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• Can we afford clean water? Can we afford rivers and lakes and streams and oceans which continue to make possible life on this planet? Can we afford life itself? Those questions were never asked as we destroyed the waters of our nation, and they deserve no answers as we finally move to restore and renew them. These questions answer themselves.

  Edmund Muskie

  Ocean, Moving, Rivers

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• The wilderness does not make you forget your normal life so much as it removes the distractions for proper remembering.

  Jim Harrison

  Inspirational, Travel, Sea

  Jim Harrison (2007). “The Raw and the Cooked: Adventures of a Roving Gourmand”, p.91, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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