You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that’s all.

My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.
BERNARD MOITESSIER

Children Real Silence Stars
You do not ask a tame seagull why it needs to disappear from time to time toward the open sea. It goes, that’s all.
BERNARD MOITESSIER

Needs Sailing Sea
In this limitless nation, this nation of wind, light, and peace, there is no other ruler besides the sea.
BERNARD MOITESSIER

Besides Light Limitless Peace Sea Wind
A sailor’s joys are as simple as a child’s.
BERNARD MOITESSIER

Children Sea Simple
I am a citizen of the most beautiful nation on earth, a nation whose laws are harsh yet simple, a nation that never cheats, which is immense and without borders, where life is lived in the present.
BERNARD MOITESSIER

Beautiful Border Cheat Cheating Peace
I hate storms, but calms undermine my spirits.
BERNARD MOITESSIER

Funny Hate Inspirational
The questions that used to bother me at times, do not weigh anything before the immensity of a wake so close to the sky and filled with the wind of the sea
BERNARD MOITESSIER

Anything Bother Close Sea Sky Wind

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