". . . . spending more time with my fly firmly attached to the branches of trees and almost none of it attached to the lips of a trout."

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We have reached the time in the life of the planet, and humanity's demand upon it, when every fisherman will have to be a river-keeper, a steward of marine shallows, a watchman on the high seas. We are beyond having to put back what we have taken out. We must put back more than we take out.

— Thomas McGuane