Excerpt from The Catching of Unshelled Fish
Olive Green (Myrtle Reed)

7 And, fish or no fish, there are compensations. Into a day of heart-breaking and soul-sickening toil, when all the world goes wrong, must sometimes come the vision of a wooded shore, with tiny dark wavelets singing softly on the rocks and a robin piping cheerily on the topmost bough of a maple. Tired eyes look past the musty ledger and the letter files to a tiny sapphire lake, set in hills, with the late afternoon light streaming in glory from the far mountains beyond.

According to the passage, why do many people enjoy fishing even when there are no fish to catch?
A) People know that they can purchase fish at a local market.
B) People think that fish will begin biting if they wait patiently.
C) People often enjoy the beauty and peacefulness of the surroundings.
D) People want to justify the amount of money that they have spent on fishing equipment.