"You know why there are so many whitefish in the Yellowstone River? Because the Fish and Game people have never done anything to help them."
"(with trout) we are touching something unrestricted, wild and arcane, beyond the reach of those who carefully maintain one-dimensional lives. There is, I tell myself, someone in the city nearby whose one contact today with unreconstructed nature will be to step into a diminutive pile of poodle excrement"
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Source: Acres of Diamonds, delivered over 5000 times at various times and places from 1900-1925
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"Not everything in life can or should be explained. Part of every painting should be incomplete...to be completed in the mind of the viewer."
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