Fishing provides that connection with the whole living world. It gives you the opportunity of being totally immersed, turning back into yourself in a good way. A form of meditation, some form of communion with levels of yourself that are deeper than the ordinary self.

- Ted Hughes

It took the whole of Creation To produce my foot, my each feather: Now I hold Creation in my foot.

- Ted Hughes

What happens in the heart simply happens.

- Ted Hughes

The Bush administration doesn't particularly like public participation. It makes them look bad.

- Ted Hughes