Fresh Water Fish

Famous quotes containing the words fresh, water and/or fish:

    “Nature will not be Buddhist: she resents generalizing, and insults the philosopher in every moment with a million fresh particulars.”
    —Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)

    “The Indian navigator naturally distinguishes by a name those parts of a stream where he has encountered quick water and forks, and again, the lakes and smooth water where he can rest his weary arms, since those are the most interesting and more arable parts to him.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

    “All the fish in us
    had escaped for a minute.
    The real fish did not mind.
    We did not disturb their personal life.”
    —Anne Sexton (1928–1974)