Henry DeForest
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“A stocked trout is to a wild trout what sports are to real life. The excitement is real, but you have to squint at it to keep the big picture from ruining it for you.”
― Trout Water, A Year on the Au Sable
― Trout Water, A Year on the Au Sable
“...people largely envied people who lived a simple life, not that they couldn't do so themselves. It is actually easy when people aren't fond of clutter. You strip the life down to the bare boards underneath, the barest elements of shelter and food”
― Brown Dog
― Brown Dog
“When the logic of history hungers for bread and we hand out a stone, we are at pains to explain how much the stone resembles bread.”
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
― A Sand County Almanac and Sketches Here and There
“...I decided I didn't want to give offense to any believers by trumpeting my "non-belief", even though they might not show me the same courtesy.”
― Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road
― Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road
“In short, twenty centuries of "progress" have brought the average citizen a vote, a national anthem, a Ford, a bank account, and a high opinion of himself, but not the capacity to live in high density without befouling and denuding his environment, nor a conviction that such capacity, rather than such density, is the true test of whether he is civilized.”
― Game Management
― Game Management
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