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Roderick Haig-Brown - A river never sleeps (1946)

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

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I have fished through fishless days that I remember happily without regret.

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Our tradition is that of the first man who sneaked away to the creek when the tribe did not really need fish.

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I still don't know why I fish or why other men fish, except that we like it and it makes us think and feel.

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I remember the good evenings I have fished, even the ones that realised material hopes not by the fish that came to the fly, but by the colour and movement of the water and sky, by the sounds and scents and gentle stirrings that were all about me.

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Roderick Haig-Brown

Roderick Haig-Brown

Born: February 21, 1908
Died: October 9, 1976 (aged 68)
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