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“It was, once again, a glorious wave, with hues in its depths so intense they felt like first editions—ocean colors never seen before, made solely for this wave, this moment, perhaps never to be seen again.”
― William Finnegan, Barbarian Days: A Surfing Life

“In the desert I am worth as much as my gods.”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

“We lived, and that we felt with alert intensity.”
― Thor Heyerdahl, The Kontiki Expedition

“Sahara, the bright, penetrating lights, the quick drop of comets, a cold moon, which made the rippling patterns of sand look like a frozen sea. The universe was large all right, but no larger, it appeared, than the whole wide world ahead of me.”
― Anthony Bourdain, A Cook's Tour: Global Adventures in Extreme Cuisines