“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 sea - whether it is to sail or to watch it - we are going back from whence we came."
[Remarks at the Dinner for the America's Cup Crews, September 14 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy
[Remarks at the Dinner for the America's Cup Crews, September 14 1962]”
― John F. Kennedy
Early morning boat launch - Everett Washington
“Believe me, my young friend, there is nothing -- absolutely nothing -- half so much worth doing as simply messing about in boats. Simply messing' he went on dreamily: 'messing -- in -- boats; messing”
― Kenneth Grahame
“I spent uncounted hours sitting at the bow looking at the water and the sky, studying each wave, different from the last, seeing how it caught the light, the air, the wind; watching patterns, the sweep of it all, and letting it take me." ― Gary Paulsen, Caught by the Sea
When they go fishing, it is not really fish they are after. It is a philosophic meditation. ~E.T. Brown
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