Famous quotes containing the words walton and/or specimen:
“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 (1593–1683)
“The rare,
Uninteresting specimen might still be putting out shoots, for all we know.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)