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Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

When all the routines and details and the human bores get on our nerves, we just yearn to go away from here to somewhere else. To go fishing is a sound, a valid, and an accepted reason for an escape. It requires no explanation.

Fishing is much more than fish. It is the great occasion when we may return to the fine simplicity of our forefathers.

Fishing is very meditative; you need to be able to give up control and cast out the line and then hope for the best, so in that way, it's quite like acting.

One of the things I enjoy the most is fishing.

Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after.

Fishing is a hard job. Fishing at night. Rain. Day, night. You have to be wise and smart. And quick.

I know the joy of fishes in the river through my own joy, as I go walking along the same river.

There are always new places to go fishing. For any fisherman, there's always a new place, always a new horizon.

Fishing seems to be the favorite form of loafing.