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• One of life's quiet excitements is to stand somewhat apart from yourself and watch yourself softly becoming the author of something beautiful, even if it is only falling ash.
  -- Norman Maclean -- A River Runs Through I...
• Help, he said, is giving part of yourself to somebody who comes to accept it willingly and needs it badly.
  -- Norman Maclean _A River Runs Through It_...
• At sunrise everything is luminous but not clear. It is those we live with and love and should know who elude us.
  You can love completely without complete understanding....
• In our family, there was no clear line between religion and fly fishing.
  We lived at the junction of great trout rivers in western Montana, and our father was a Presbyterian minister and a fly fisherman who tied his own flies and taught others....
• A chasm, evidently produced by an ancient river, runs through the cave here.
  Passages lead off in all directions....
• Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.
  Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth....
• Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river.
  Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks of the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth....
• My love for you is as endless as the sky above. It runs like a river through my heart.
  My love for you will live forever. Like the Earth itself and all that is life. -- Ken Gra...