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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,
38
"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."
36
"The air soft as that of Seville in April, and so fragrant that it was delicious to breathe it."
35
"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."
33
"Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be."
31
"People do not decide to become extraordinary. They decide to accomplish extraordinary things."
31
"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."
23
"If I know I make this much trouble, I never climb Everest."
21
"I demolish my bridges behind me - then there is no choice but forward."
14
"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."
13
"Difficulties are just things to overcome, after all."
13
"Water and air, the two essential fluids on which all life depends, have become global garbage cans."
11
"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."
11
"Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity."
10
"Between 2 and 3 in the morning of the 19th inst. I was aroused by the cry that the enemy was upon us."
8
"I had gained the summit of a commanding ridge, and, looking round with astonishing delight, beheld the ample plains, the beauteous tracts below."
7
"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."
7
"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."
7
"Never stop because you are afraid - you are never so likely to be wrong."
7
"We had discovered an accursed country. We had found the Home of the Blizzard."
7
"Do just once what others say you can't do, and you will never pay attention to their limitations again."
7
"Yet, upon the whole, the space I traversed is unlikely to become the haunt of civilized man, or will only become so in isolated spots, as a chain of connection to a more fertile country; if such a country exist to the westward."
7
"The best way to get most husbands to do something is to suggest that perhaps they're too old to do it."
6
"Their houses are all built in the shape of tents, with very high chimneys."
6
"They killed our mirror, our light, our comfort and our true guide."
6
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