"He must, so know the starfish and the student biologist who sits at the feet of living things, proliferate in all
directions. Having certain tendencies, he must move along their lines to the limit of their potentialities."

John Steinbeck - Log from the Sea of Cortez

Sunday, January 24, 2010

Nocturnal reading...

A while back, a friend gave me a copy of Pavlov's Trout, by Paul Quinnett. Autographed, actually - Thanks, K. Quinnett's a psychologist, and he writes about the psychology of fishing. It goes a little beyond that, though. One quote in particularly stuck with me...

"Not getting answers to 'Why' leads kids to stop asking, and contributes to the death of their curiosity and hope, perhaps even condemning them to a life of boredom and watching daytime television. Fishermen who keep coming up with one more why question become fish biologists, or ichthyologists, or ecologists..."

True that. Looking for the why.

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