The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing Quotes

“scholar and a grammarian, able to write and discourse on his art in true and fitting terms; he must have sweetness of speech to entice others to delight in so laudable an exercise, and strength of argument to defend it against envy and slander; he must be strong and valiant, neither to be amazed with storms nor affrighted to thunder; and his is not temperate but has a gnawing stomach, he will not endure fasting but must observe hours.”
― Mark Kurlansky, The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing