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Thor Heyerdahl

I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.

Thor Heyerdahl

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Thor Heyerdahl is expressing that his personal experience in nature leads him to question the reality of time and the future, feeling that they are not real concepts. He suggests that in moments of solitude and connection with nature, these ideas lose their meaning and seem to disappear.

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