[VFB] QUOTE FOR THE DAY

[Jimmy D. Moore]

I FISH

• because I like to.

• because I love the environs where trout are found, which are 
invariably beautiful; and hid from environs where crowds of people are 
found, which are invariably ugly.

• because of all the television commercials, cocktail parties and 
assorted social posturing I thus escape.

• because in a world where most men seem to spend their lives doing 
things they hate, my fishing is at once an endless source of delight and 
an act of small rebellion.

• because trout do not lie or cheat or cannot be bought or bribed or 
impressed by power, but respond only to quietism and humility and 
endless patience.

• because I suspect that men are going along this way for the last time, 
and I, for one, do not want to waste the trip.

• because mercifully, there are no telephones on trout waters.

• because only in the woods can I find solitude without loneliness.

• because bourbon out of an old tin cup always tastes better out there.

• because maybe one day I will catch a mermaid.

• And finally, I fish not because I regard fishing as being terribly 
important, but because I suspect that so many of the other concerns of 
men are equally unimportant, and not nearly so much fun.

AMEN.

--John Volker, Retired Michigan Supreme Court Justice



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