"It is utterly soothing to fly fish for trout. All other considerations or worries drift away and you couldn't keep them close if you wanted. Perhaps it's standing thigh deep in a river with the water passing at the exact but varying speed of life. You easily recognize this mortality and it dissipates into the landscape."

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Source : Jim Harrison (2007). “True North”, p.157, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

Jim Harrison

#Lakes Quotes #Sea Quotes #Fishing Quotes

“Continuing economic growth requires both recruitment of new companies and expansion of existing businesses.”
“People whose talents are not exploited become disenchanted and disruptive.”
“Fear drives you and makes you better.”
“My friends, there are no friends.”
“Character is an essential tendency. It can be covered up, it can be messed with, it can be screwed around with, but it can't be ultimately changed. It's the structure of our bones, the blood that runs through our veins.”
“The story about me, apocryphal or not, is that I could sing before I spoke. My parents went into bedroom one day and there I was standing in the crib singing God Bless America.”
“It is especially important to encourage unorthodox thinking when the situation is critical”
“Today's Politically Correct "historical Jesuses" are no different, being mere clones of the scholars who design them.”

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