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Henry David Thoreau Quotes about Sailing

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The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.

The sail, the play of its pulse so like our own lives: so thin and yet so full of life, so noiseless when it labors hardest, so noisy and impatient when least effective.

Henry David Thoreau
Play, Sailing, Pulse
Henry David Thoreau (1873). “A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers”, p.381

He is the best sailor who can steer within the fewest points of the wind, and extract a motive power out of the greatest obstacles. Most begin to veer and tack as soon as the wind changes from aft, and as within the tropics it does not blow from all points of the compass, there are some harbors which they can never reach.

Henry David Thoreau
Blow, Wind, Sailing
Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Essential Thoreau”, p.688, Simon and Schuster

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