"There was a code, and though it was mostly unspoken, I absorbed it early on. You always put all the trout back in the water alive except for a few to eat. You didn't count your trout or call attention to their size or weight. You took time to watch and enjoy seeing your partners catch trout."

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Source : Howard Frank Mosher (2014). “North Country: A Personal Journey Through the Borderland”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Howard Frank Mosher

#Fishing Quotes #Water Quotes #Trout Quotes

“I think my kids are pretty well-rounded citizens of the world.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I think that things happen individually first, and then collectively. It's not the other way around.”
“I tried to stop smoking cigarettes by telling myself I just didn't want to smoke, but I didn't believe myself”
“And, at such a time, for a few of us there will always be a tugging at the heartâ€”knowing a precious moment had gone and we not there. We can ask and ask but we canâ€™t have again what once seemed ours for everâ€”the way things looked, that church alone in the fields, a bed on belfry floor, a remembered voice, a loved face. Theyâ€™ve gone and you can only wait for the pain to pass.”
“We are broken open, or we willfully shed.”
“I've been writing for a long time. I sat down to write my first novel in the middle of March of 1982.”
“Naturally, no one knows more about music than musicians. They talk about their own work all the time, but they rarely get to talk about other people's music.”
“I know not what others may choose but, as for me, give me liberty or give me death.”

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