Russell Chatham quotes

“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.”
-- Russell Chatham

#Government Quotes #Games Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“There are as many reasons why and ways to fish as there are people who do it.”
-- Russell Chatham

Source : Russell Chatham (1988). “Dark Waters: Essays, Short Stories and Articles”

#People Quotes #Way Quotes #Reason Quotes

“(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”
-- Russell Chatham

#Sea Quotes #Fishing Quotes #Cities Quotes

“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.”
-- Russell Chatham

#Mind Quotes #Painting Quotes #Should Quotes

“[The U.S. government] was tired of treaties. They were tired of sacred hills. They were tired of ghost dances. And they were tired of all the inconveniences of the Sioux. So they brought out their cannons. 'You want to be an Indian now?' they said, finger on the trigger.”

“I agree that ***** laws are overdue for an overhaul. I also favor the medical use of ***** -- if it's prescribed by a physician. I cannot understand why the federal government should interfere with the doctor-patient relationship, nor why it would ignore the will of a majority of voters who have legally approved such legislation.”

“For me, baseball is the most nourishing game outside of literature. They both are re-tellings of human experience.”

“Scrabble - The game is available in Braille. That’s a nice fact. This makes me feel better about humanity for some reason. I can’t really explain why.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2004). “The Know-It-All: One Man's Humble Quest to Become the Smartest Person in the World”, p.305, Simon and Schuster

“This is my last Commonwealth Games. Five CWG and nine medals, it is enough for me.”

“Cincinnati needs to take notes from Houston. Houston fans are among the top five fans in the game.”

“If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread.”

“The logs of wood which move down the river together Are driven apart by every wave. Such inevitable parting Should not be the cause of misery.”

“But I do enjoy words—some words for their own sake! Words like river, and dawn, and daylight, and time. These words seem much richer than our experiences of the things they represent—”

“A river or stream is a cycle of energy from sun to plants to insects to fish. It is a continuum broken only by humans.”