Upstream Quotes

• I have seen salmon swimming upstream to spawn even with their eyes pecked out. Even as they are dying, as their flesh is falling away from their spines, I have seen salmon fighting to protect their nests. I have seen them push up creeks so small that they rammed themselves across the gravel. I have seen them swim upstream with huge chunks bitten out of their bodies by bears. Salmon are incredibly driven to spawn. They will not give up. This gives me hope.

  

  Kathleen Moore
  • Dying
  • Protect
  • Bodies

• The fish who keeps on swimming is the first to chill upstream.

  

  Nick Hexum
  • Swimming
  • Fish
  • Upstream

• He whose longing has been aroused for the indescribable, whose mind has been quickened by it, and whose thought is not attached to sensuality is truly called one who is bound upstream.

  

  Gautama Buddha
  • Mind
  • Sensuality
  • Upstream