title: The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected: A Natural Philosophers Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything
author:  Marcelo Gleiser 
description: Beautifully composed . . . This elegant treatise will inspire readers who relish a philosophical approach to science and travel.-- "Library Journal"<br /><br />"Altogether excellent."-- "Brain Pickings"<br /><br />"Part memoir, part popular science blog, with interludes of closely guided casting in England, Italy, and Iceland, Gleiser, like many of us, explores angling as a "conduit to the outer world of natural phenomena and the inner world of the self."-- "Fly Fishing &amp; Tying Journal"
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  MARCELO GLEISER
  
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  The Simple Beauty of the
  
  UNEXPECTED
  
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  > > A Natural Philosopher’s Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything
  
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  To the trout I never caught,  
  and the equation I never solved
  
  Yes, as everyone knows, meditation  
  and water are wedded for ever.
  
  HERMAN MELVILLE, _MOBY-DICK_
  
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  They do not step into the same rivers.  
  It is other and still other waters  
  that are flowing.
  
  HERACLITUS, _FRAGMENTS_
  
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