salmon quotes

I'll love you dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet And the river jumps over the mountain And the salmon sing in the street, I'll love you till the ocean Is folded and hung up to dry And the seven starsgo squawking Like geese about the sky.

-W(ystan) H(ugh) Auden
  'As I  Walked Out One Evening'.

The Salmon is the most stately fish that any man may angle to in fresh water.

- DameJuliana or Juliana Barnes   fl.14c Berners
  Treatyseperteynyne to Hawkynge, Huntynge, Fyshynge, and Coote Armiris.

He that steals a cow from a poor widow, or a stirk from a cottar, is a thief; he that lifts a drove from a Sassenach laird, is a gentleman-drover. And, besides, to take a tree from the forest, a salmon from the river, a deer from the hill, or a cow from a Lowland strath, is what no Highlander need ever think shame upon.

- Sir Walter Scott
  Evan Dhu Maccombich to EdwardWaverley.Waverley, ch.18.