"If a man or a women must be obsessed by something, I suppose a boat is as good as anything, perhaps a bit better than most. A small sailing craft is not only beautiful, it is seductive and full of strange promise and the hint of trouble. If it happens to be an auxiliary cruising boat, it is without question the most compact and ingenious arrangement for living ever devised by the restless mind of man--a home that is stable without being stationary, shaped less like a box than like a fish or a girl, and in which the homeowner can remove his daily affairs as far from shore as he has the nerve to take them, close hauled or running free--parlor, bedroom, and bath, suspended and alive."
~E. B. White
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That's one of my favorite (favourite) quotes from EB White. I hadn't read it in a while.
Hi Dan. Yes it is a great quote, and of course as a sailor I think the quote is full of immense wisdom!
I have read E B Whites 'Charlottes Web' to several classes over the years. I was amazed how it changed my view on Spiders (but it didn't last!).
What has changed my action (rather than my liking) towards spiders has been taking seriously a Buddhist outlook - under this regime spiders get to be put outside rather than squashed!
Nice to hear from you again. : > )
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