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“If I had a desire to be with anything in the North, it was to be with icebergs. I do not know if I had had this wish for years or if it only intensified as the prospect of the voyage loomed. But when I saw them, it was as though I had been waiting quietly for a very long time, as if for an audience with the Dalai Lama.”

— Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams: Imagination and Desire in a Northern Landscape.