Casting Onward Quotes

“Life is a circle, not a line. Circles describe nature from a bird’s nest to raindrops striking a pond. I’d like my life to be round, like that. I’d like my life to be natural.”

~ Steve Ramirez, from The Things That Matter”
― Steve Ramirez, Casting Onward: Adventures in Search of America's Native Fish

“Here is my hope: “Every angler is a naturalist.” If we genuinely love the great outdoors, we need to actually love it.

So many people seem to mix up love with use. When you love someone, you don’t use them, you participate in their lives. You are on their team and they are on yours. If you love someone, you protect them and help them grow healthy and free. Love is always a key and never a cage. Love is unconditional, not transactional.

~ Steve Ramirez, from Casting Onward”
― Steve Ramirez, Casting Onward: Adventures in Search of America's Native Fish

“The reason I love small-stream fishing is because it’s a game of strategy. It’s like golf without the silly clothes. It’s like chess without the long moments of boredom whenever it’s not your move. In small-stream fishing, it’s always your move.

~ Steve Ramirez, from Casting Onward”
― Steve Ramirez, Casting Onward: Adventures in Search of America's Native Fish

“When I think of all the time I have spent in this finite life, sitting in meetings with academics, politicians, and other blowhards, listening to inflated egos pontificate at length about the grand value of nothing, I become overwhelmed with a mixture of ironic amusement and idiotic regret. After all, I could have been fishing.

~ Steve Ramirez, from Casting Onward”
― Steve Ramirez, Casting Onward: Adventures in Search of America's Native Fish

“If every angler, hunter, and hiker became a naturalist, we’d make better choices and create a better world.”

~ Steve Ramirez, from Casting Onward”
― Steve Ramirez, Casting Onward: Adventures in Search of America's Native Fish