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Sailing
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What is time to a water rat? What is time to the river? Only we humans obsess over days and minutes, hours and seasons.
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― The Journals of Constant Waterman: Paddling, Poling, and Sailing for the Love of It
― The Journals of Constant Waterman: Paddling, Poling, and Sailing for the Love of It
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I really don't know why it is that all of us are so committed to the sea, except I think it's because in addition to the fact that the sea changes, and the light changes, and ships change, it's because we all came from the sea. And it is an interesting biological fact that all of us have in our veins the exact same percentage of salt in our blood that exists in the ocean, and, therefore, we have salt in our blood, in our sweat, in our tears. We are tied to the ocean. And when we go back to the s
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