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Quotes by Explorer
"I ordered each man to be presented with something, as strings of ten or a dozen glass beads apiece, and thongs of leather, all which they estimated highly; those which came on board I directed should be fed with molasses."
Man,
52
"The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it."
48
"We must always remember with gratitude and admiration the first sailors who steered their vessels through storms and mists, and increased our knowledge of the lands of ice in the South."
47
"People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things."
46
"Australia is properly speaking an island, but it is so much larger than every other island on the face of the globe, that it is classed as a continent in order to convey to the mind a just idea of its magnitude."
45
"Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be."
41
"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all."
38
"If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest."
37
"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."
33
"I am not solicitous to examine particularly everything here, which indeed could not be done in fifty years, because my desire is to make all possible discoveries, and return to your Highnesses, if it please our Lord, in April."
23
"I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward."
19
"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."
19
"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity."
18
"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
18
"We have an unknown distance yet to run, an unknown river to explore. What falls there are, we know not; what rocks beset the channel, we know not; what walls ride over the river, we know not. Ah, well! we may conjecture many things."
18
"Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans."
16
"Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World."
16
"Ambition leads me not only farther than any other man has been before me, but as far as I think it possible for man to go."
15
"Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us."
15
"Tomorrow morning before we depart, I intend to land and see what can be found in the neighborhood."
15
"Dr. David Livingstone left the Island of Zanzibar in March, 1866."
15
"We must plant the sea and herd its animals using the sea as farmers instead of hunters. That is what civilization is all about - farming replacing hunting."
14
"For the execution of the voyage to the Indies, I did not make use of intelligence, mathematics or maps."
14
"Never keep a line of retreat: it is a wretched invention."
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