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EnglishVoice Age
Middle Aged (35-54)Accents
North American (General) North American (US Midwest- Chicago, Great Lakes)Transcript
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on the wall of my bedroom, there was a picture of a sailboat. When I closed my eyes, I pretended to climb aboard. I could almost hear the waves lapping against the hall in the sound of the wind in the rigging. Cruising under sail is one of the finest sports. Those who take part in it pit their knowledge and skill not against a human opponent, for kudos or gain, but against the sea and all of its moods. Cruising teaches you to rely on your own judgment and skill, working the winds and tides and harnessing the immense power of the ocean. It provides a feeling of achievement when a strange coast or harbor has been reached under sail and the never ending adventure of living aboard and caring for a seaworthy yacht and all of her gear. When penguins lost the ability to fly, they evolved into a form that gave them great mastery. In a different medium, the see penguins have very compact, streamlined bodies and short but extremely stiff wings or flippers, which they use those paddles, their feet and stubby tails. Working together, former runner, if any one landscape on earth has proved more useful to humanity. It may be the forests. They provide lumber for homes and ships, firewood, food, pulp for making paper, medicines and a plethora of folk stories and deities. But forests usefulness has also been their undoing. In fact, few places on Earth retain any virgin forests.