“The one thing that would have been worse than to be cold floating up and down the waves south of the Indian Ocean, would have been not
having made this far, or never having left the warm and comfortable
waters of Paraty – even if only to find out how warm and
comfortable they were. I felt oddly well as I sailed around the ice that was so far away from home. Today I understand my father. A man must
travel, on his own, not through stories, images, books or TV. He must
travel himself, with his eyes and feet, to understand that which is
his. So that one day he can plant his own trees and value them. He
must know the cold so the can enjoy the heat. He
must feel distance and displacement, so he can feel well under his
own roof. A man must travel to places he doesn't know to break the
arrogance that makes us see the world the way we imagine it, instead
of simply the way it is or could be; the arrogance that makes us be teachers and
doctors of things we have never seen, when we should be instead students, simply going and seeing.” Amyr Klink (Endless Sea)
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