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Quotes About Fishing

Bottom trawling is a ghastly process that brings untold damage to sea beds that support ocean life. It's akin to using a bulldozer to catch a butterfly, destroying a whole ecosystem for the sake of a few pounds of protein. We wouldn't do this on land, so why do it in the oceans?
~ Sylvia Earle
Work: a dangerous disorder affecting high public functionaries who want to go fishing.
~ Ambrose Bierce
One fifth of human kind depend on fish to live. Today now 70 percent of the fish stock are over-exploited. According to FAO if we don't change our system of fishing the main sea resources will be gone in 2050. We don't want to believe what we know.
~ Yann Arthus-Bertrand
I never go fishing on a full stomach. If we are allowed to, we always eat what we catch. Were eating food as fresh as it can be.
~ Robson Green
The fishing is best where the fewest go and the collective insecurity of the world makes it easy for people to hit home runs while everyone is aiming for base hits.
~ Timothy Ferriss
If fishing is a religion, fly fishing is high church.
~ Tom Brokaw
If we keep on destroying fish, there won't be any left. If the oceans die, we all die. It's as simple as that.
~ Sylvie Guillem
I've had offers to do series on both radio and TV, but it s so much work and I'm lazy. I'd rather go fishing.
~ Fred MacMurray
I get out in my boat and go fishing inshore and offshore.
~ Rickie Fowler
When I felt better, I tried to remember what had been beautiful in my life. I did not think about love or how I had wandered all over the world. I did not think about night flights across the ocean or how I played Canadian hockey in Prague. I remembered walking along the brooks, rivers, ponds, and dams to fish. I realized that these were the most beautiful experiences in my life.
~ Ota Pavel
We stopped by the blackboard and saw that the fishing had been upgraded to "good." Woody had recommended minnows for bait and chalked in "Browns around Pepperwood Island." "Let's add a note," Jack said. "Skeletons by Prentice Point.
~ P.J. Petersen
Quiero saber, hermanos míos, dije en la Unión de Pescadores, si todos se aman como yo. La verdad es - me contestaron - que nosotros pescamos peces y tú te pescas a ti mismo y luego vuelves a pescarte y a tirarte al mar otra vez.
~ Pablo Neruda
I often went fishing up in Maine during the summer. Personally I am very fond of strawberries and cream, but I have found that for some strange reason, fish prefer worms. So when I went fishing, I didn't think about what I wanted. I thought about what they wanted. I didn't bait the hook with strawberries and cream. Rather, I dangled a worm or a grasshopper in front of the fish and said: "Wouldn't you like to have that?
~ Dale Carnegie
Thank you, dear God, for this good life and forgive us if we do not love it enough. Thank you for the rain. And for the chance to wake up in three hours and go fishing: I thank you for that now, because I won't feel so thankful then.
~ Garrison Keillor
Once you get over the culture shock, Filey is a pleasant spot, particularly at the beginning or end of the summer, when the hotels are half full. The brave go in winter, when the wind can be bitter and biting and Filey resumes its real life as a tiny, introverted fishing community.
~ David Hewson
Be patient and calm; no one can catch fish in anger.
~ Herbert Hoover
There is no government so worthy as your son who fishes with you in silence beside the forest pool. There is no national glory so comely as your daughter whose hands have learned a music and go their own way on the keys.
~ Wendell Berry
We made love again. This time it was me who asked. Lying there again, on the bed, this time with heath, almost an oven heat, coming through the screen, and sweat instead of tears, I wondered how simple we really are. That we can do the same things again and again and again and find them interesting, even fascinating and seek the repetition with a hunger as avid. How fishing was like that, and painting.
~ Heller, Peter
Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in. I drink at it but as I drink, I see the sandy bottom and detect how shallow it is.
~ Henry David Thoreau, Walden
He was fond of angling, and seemed proud of being able to like such a stupid occupation.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I'd rather go ice fishing, which is the dumbest thing a man can do. You're sitting essentially in an out house and it's 30 below. You've cut a hole in the ice, and you're fishing for fish that you shouldn't eat, 'cause any fish that is down there is f***ing stupid.
~ Lewis Black
Going quail hunting is like saying "I'm going fishing," and going to a goldfish bowl and going "Got it!"
~ Lewis Niles Black
There is no need for an end to fish, or to fishing for that matter. But there is an urgent need for governments to free themselves from the fishing-industrial complex and its Ponzi scheme, to stop subsidizing the fishing-industrial complex and awarding it fishing rights, when it should in fact pay for the privilege to fish.
~ Daniel Pauly
There is an urgent need for regeneration of fisheries and fostering a sustainable fisheries programme. What I mean is, designing new fishing vessels and nets so that they do not disrupt the fish lifecycle by catching young ones and also do not destroy sea grass beds, which serve as habitats for dugongs.
~ M. S. Swaminathan