Tim Winton Quotes About Surfing

Quotes about: Surfing

• It's impossible to imagine what Australia would be like without surfing.

  Tim Winton

  Sports, Australia, Surfing

• When you're surfing you're not thinking about where you parked the car or what you're going to do when you grow up or what you're going to buy when you've got lots of money. You know, you're just there. You're in the moment. And I think in a contemporary world, that's a rare privilege.

  Tim Winton

  Sports, Growing Up, Thinking

• Surfing is one of the most joyful pursuits a human can take up. But there's no joy in a deadzone. If you've ever surfed in turds and medical waste you don't want to repeat the experience.

  Tim Winton

  Joy, Surfing, Want

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

• In Australia surfing was for the oiks. It was always rebellious. And sadly it was for a long time a bit unreflective and macho and anti-intellectual. Unlike other sports it was essentially a youth cult, like rock and roll. But like rock and roll its people grew up.

  Tim Winton

  Sports, Australia, Rocks

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

• Surfers travelled and opened up and changed. It became more mainstream, less of a cult. And it diversified. On any given day in the water now I'll meet three generations of surfers, male and female, everyone sporting a different craft. I started surfing in the 60s and I can tell you it's infinitely more diverse. It might be more crowded but it's also more interesting.

  Tim Winton

  Water, Interesting, Surfing

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

• Surfing is sensual. It's a real-time engagement with the forces of nature, which happen to be echoes of the past (which after all, is all a wave really is). Briefly we defy gravity and ride the energy of storms from elsewhere. We are intensely alone as we do it and yet completely swallowed by something larger that enforces a sense of perspective and connectedness to the natural world. It's an experience we yearn to repeat so we go searching for it again and again and we spend years sitting in the water waiting for these radiating lines to come in across the event horizon.

  Tim Winton

  Real, Past, Years

  Source: www.sas.org.uk

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