Jill Fredston Quotes

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Groups of sixty or more blinking beluga whales swam gently between our boats, and bearded seals tailed us like private detectives. Orange-beaked puffins made us laugh aloud as they flashed by with their feet held stiffly behind them, like flying nuns on vital church business.

Jill Fredston

Part of the irony of loving the natural world is understanding that it would be better off without human presence.

Jill Fredston

Sculling is the closest I'll ever come to being a ballerina, to creating visual music. A good rowing stroke is fluid, circular, continuous. It is unmarred by pauses, hitches, arm yanks, or back heaves.

Jill Fredston

Hindsight has repeatedly shown that we humans have a tendency to underestimate hazard, or to overestimate our ability to deal with it.

Jill Fredston

Doug says I have a coffee drinker's personality in the morning, complicated by the fact that I don't drink coffee.

Jill Fredston