Sailing the Pacific Quotes

“What I could never tailor to fit the confines of an anecdote was a description of a place without people or events: a place where the landscape was not simply a backdrop. Seven-tenths of my human body is water. I spent the first nine months of my life suspended in fluid. A journey over water is not the same as a journey on land. But in my anecdotes I never found a way to even begin to explain this. I could not describe the things at sea which had moved me.”
― Miles Hordern, Sailing the Pacific: A Voyage Across the Longest Stretch of Water on Earth, and a Journey into Its Past