My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.

Of all the sounds that touch my soul these days, the most beautiful one of all is silence.

Andy Anderson has written an autobiography in pictures, a life on the water. Salt is an eloquent modern paean to the strength and beauty of the coastal waters he cares for at a time when that environment is in danger of disappearing.

My dogs forgive anger in me, the arrogance in me, the brute in me. They forgive everything I do before I forgive myself.