When I reflect on how much time we spend in our homes and offices, or hurrying here and there in planes and trains and autos -- wrapped, always, in cocoons of our own making -- I am dismayed.   Nothing restores the spirit quite like a breathtaking mountain vista.  It just doesn't get much better than it is for this fisherman in Almost Heaven.  I love to fish, not so much for the strike or the catch, but simply because fishing gives me license to get out into nature. 

~ Thomas Kinkade