A Quote by Roderick Haig-Brown

Perhaps fishing is, for me, only an excuse to be near rivers.

Roderick Haig-Brown

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Excuse Fishing Me Near Only Perhaps Rivers

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Roderick Haig-Brown
Canadian - Writer
February 21, 1908 - October 9, 1976

There is no excuse-and we should call a spade a spade-for chemical companies and oil refineries using our major rivers as pipelines for toxic waste. There is no excuse for communities to use other people's rivers as a dump for their raw sewage.

Lyndon B. Johnson

I've known rivers: I've known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins. My soul has grown deep like the rivers. I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young. I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep. I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it. I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I've seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset. I've known rivers: Ancient, dusky rivers. My soul has grown deep like the rivers.

Langston Hughes

Don't talk anybody, don't come near! Can't you see the fish might hear? He thinks I'm playing with a piece of string; He thinks I'm another sort of funny thing, But he doesn't know I'm fishing - He doesn't know I'm fishing. That's what I'm doing - Fishing.

A. A. Milne

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

Jimmy Cannon

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

Jimmy Cannon

Rivers perhaps are the only physical features of the world that are at their best from the air.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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.

Thomas McGuane

I love any discourse of rivers, and fish and fishing.

Izaak Walton

Baby's fishing for a dream, fishing near and far. His line a silver moonbeam is, his bait a silver star.

Alice Riley

Such a nice day - out all day up in the Carter Notch direction, trout-fishing, with the long drive there and the long drive home again in time for supper. It was a lovely brook and I caught seven good trout and one small one - which eight trout-persons you should have for your breakfast if only you were near enough. It was not alone the fishing, but the delightful loneliness and being out of doors.