"I went to the woods because I wanted to live deliberately, I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to put to rout all that was not life and not when I came to die discover that I had not LIVED!" Henry David Thoreau

I now know that you could also insert 'the bayou at sunset' in place of 'the woods' in the above quote.

I've never felt more alive during one of our adventures than I did as the sun said her goodbyes to the world while we sat atop our airboats and watched her fade away...