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“We are souls with bodies, not the other way around. Without the essence of who we are—intact and authentically within our vessels—we are unblinking, inanimate objects; we are no longer soil. . . we are dirt.â€�

~ Steve Ramirez, Casting Forward”
― Steve Ramirez, Casting Forward: Fishing Tales from the Texas Hill Country

“So, you stand in the river, facing upstream with the water rushing down upon you as if it could somehow fill the hollow emptiness—and somehow, it always does. So it was one morning. I stood there, without even casting and with no trout rising, and as the water rushed past me, I knew it was washing my burdens behind me, swirling them downstream like the autumn leaves. There is a great deal about living that trout can teach us. They teach us how to keep swimming even in a steady current. Trout know that if they stop swimming, they cease to be trout and begin to become debris, floating without purpose wherever the current may take them. Trout know that if they keep swimming, facing into the current, perhaps in the eddy of a rock, all that they need to truly live will eventually come to them. I learn a great deal from trout.”
― Steve Ramirez, Casting Forward: Fishing Tales from the Texas Hill Country

“I’ve learned a lot in this year. I’ve learned that the way to get your soul back isn’t to chase it but rather to quietly wait for it. When you’re ready, it finds you.â€�

~ Steve Ramirez, Casting Forward”
― Steve Ramirez, Casting Forward: Fishing Tales from the Texas Hill Country

“Do you quit? No, you may cast to that spot again, or you may cast to another, working the river naturally, without thought, moment by moment, until you find the place where what you seek finds you. This is what we must do, you and me.â€� She smiled.”
― Steve Ramirez, Casting Forward: Fishing Tales from the Texas Hill Country

“that it is the nature of intelligent life to destroy itself.”
― Steve Ramirez, Casting Forward: Fishing Tales from the Texas Hill Country

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.”
― Steve Ramirez, Casting Forward: Fishing Tales from the Texas Hill Country

“and assorted social posturing I thus escape. Because in a world where most men seem to spend their lives doing what they hate, my fishing is at once an endless source of delight and an act of”
― Steve Ramirez, Casting Forward: Fishing Tales from the Texas Hill Country

“Fly-fishing makes you live through the trout’s eyes. Like the trout, you live in the water and learn of the currents. You reach up into the air to grasp that which sustains you. Fly-fishing connects you to the trout’s world, and in doing so, your own.â€�

~ Steve Ramirez, Casting Forward”
― Steve Ramirez, Casting Forward: Fishing Tales from the Texas Hill Country

“It’s so easy to slip into the illusion that life orbits around our own personal gravitational pull. It’s easy to begin thinking that the universe owes us a living, it doesn’t—we owe us a living.â€�

~ Steve Ramirez, Casting Forward”
― Steve Ramirez, Casting Forward: Fishing Tales from the Texas Hill Country

“The problem with being a river is that once you spill yourself out for the good of every tree and blade of grass there is nothing left of you to tumble over the rocks.â€�

~ Steve Ramirez, Casting Forward”
― Steve Ramirez, Casting Forward: Fishing Tales from the Texas Hill Country