Yukon River Salmon

Famous quotes containing the words yukon, river and/or salmon:

“Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.”
—Christina Stead (1902–1983)

“Other roads do some violence to Nature, and bring the traveler to stare at her, but the river steals into the scenery it traverses without intrusion, silently creating and adorning it, and is as free to come and go as the zephyr.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“There are some achievements which are never done in the presence of those who hear of them. Catching salmon is one, and working all night is another.”
—Anthony Trollope (1815–1882)