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"
zlib_text: MARCELO GLEISER
  The Simple Beauty of the
  UNEXPECTED
  A Natural Philosopher’s Quest for Trout
  and the Meaning of Everything
  ForeEdge
  
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  An imprint of University Press of New England
  www.upne.com
  ©  2016 Marcelo Gleiser
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  ISBN 9781611689402 (ebook)
  
  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
  They do not step into the same rivers.
  It is other and still other waters
  that are flowing.
  HERACLITUS, FRAG ME NTS
  
  CONTENTS
  Prologue
  The Young Boy and the Sea
  You Give to the River and the River Gives Back to You
  A Note to the Reader
  1 
  Cumbria, Lake District, UK
  On Unsolvable Mysteries
  Immortally Beautiful Ope