Famous quotes by Explorers

Liv Arnesen

"I believe that we all have a responsibility to take care of our planet and to protect the natural world for future generations"

Liv Arnesen, Explorer

"The belief in charms for protecting newborn infants is very strong in Greece"

James Theodore Bent, Explorer

"As every thread of gold is valuable, so is every moment of time"

John Mason, Explorer

"An insuperable obstacle to rapid transit in Africa is the want of carriers, and as speed was the main object of the Expedition under my command, my duty was to lessen this difficulty as much as possible"

Henry Morton Stanley, Explorer

"The Merchants of Carolina, are fair, frank Traders"

John Lawson, Explorer

Fridtjof Nansen

"It is better to go skiing and think of God, than go to church and think of sport"

Fridtjof Nansen, Explorer

"Now it is evident that a little insight into the customs of every people is necessary to insure a kindly communication; this, joined with patience and kindness, will seldom fail with the natives of the interior"

Charles Sturt, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"One learns more from listening than speaking. And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"Today we are fighting Communism. Okay. If I'd been alive fifty years ago, the brand of Conservatism we have today would have been damn near called Communism and we should have been told to go and fight that. History is moving pretty quickly these days and the heroes and villains keep on changing parts"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"We must wake up to the insane reality of our time. We are all irresponsible, unless we demand from the responsible decision makers that modern armaments must no longer be made available to people whose former battle axes and swords our ancestors condemned"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty conscience, and who by chewing on old hate in times of peace wish to demonstrate how great they were during the war"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of the jungle and who by the standards set by our society would be considered destitute and out of touch"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own willpower and strength are willing to sacrifice their lives for an idea"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

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, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have never seen any"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"For every minute, the future is becoming the past"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"Civilization grew in the beginning from the minute that we had communication - particularly communication by sea that enabled people to get inspiration and ideas from each other and to exchange basic raw materials"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are sitting here alive today, while all the others are dead or have never been born"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

Thor Heyerdahl

"A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other"

Thor Heyerdahl, Explorer

"We Spaniards know a sickness of the heart that only gold can cure"

Hernando Cortez, Explorer

"He travels safest in the dark night who travels lightest"

Hernando Cortez, Explorer

Ann Bancroft

"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it"

Ann Bancroft, Explorer

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