There are offences given and offences not given but taken. – Izaak Walton
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. – Izaak Walton

There are offences given and offences not given but taken. – Izaak Walton
Angling may be said to be so like the mathematics that it can never be fully learned. – Izaak Walton
We may say of angling, as Dr. Boteler said of strawberries, Doubtless God could have made a better berry, but doubtless God never did; and so, if I might be judge, God never did make a more calm, quiet, innocent recreation than angling. – Izaak Walton
Only the explorer of steep and narrow trails inaccessible to cattle makes acquaintance with flowers in a grazing country. The large scale of all the physical features of California tends to monotony of vegetable life. The same trees cover miles of country. Only those who climb find variety. – Isabella G. Oakley, “Santa Barbara of Today,” in Sunset, May 1904