Quotes About Explorers

The Copper Key awaits explorers In a tomb filled with horrors But you have much to learn If you hope to earn A place among the high scorers

Historical records show that Abenakis and other Natives encountered European explorers and traders in Canada looking for sources of ivory to compete with the Russian trade in Siberian fossil mammoth ivory - these traders routinely asked about ivory 'horns' and teeth.

Sanctified by their initiatory experiences and furnished with their spirit guardians, the shaman alone among human beings is able to consciously travel into the spiritual worlds as cosmic explorers.

For centuries, native Eskimos cut blocks of oil-soaked tundra from natural seeps to use as fuel. In the 1920s, explorers arrived and began poking holes. In 1968, they discovered Prudhoe Bay State No. 1, the largest oil field in North America and one of the largest in the world, and a year later the adjacent Kuparuk field, the second-largest.

On the 27th we came to the Cascade Rapids. The first or Little Cascade has about two feet fall, the second or Grand Cascade, a mile farther, is about a six foot sheer drop.

It would be possible to sail from Scandinavia to Canada without once crossing more than 250 miles of open sea.

Explorers like to pretend that they are a select breed of people with iron nerve and an ability to endure terrible hardship.

The only people who ever get any place interesting are the people who get lost. That's why the planets are so much better company than the stars — they keep wandering back and forth across the sky and you never know where you're going to find them.

On Ralph Waldo Emerson)I love all men who dive. Any fish can swim near the surface, but it takes a great whale to go down stairs five miles or more; and if he don't attain the bottom, why all the lead in Galena can't fashion the plummet that will. I'm not talking of Mr Emerson now -but of the whole corps of thought-divers, that have been diving and coming up again with bloodshot eyes since the world began.

The avantgarde are people who don't exactly know where they want to go, but are the first to get there.

Although I have had offers of wireless installation for the Fram," he said in one rambling interview, "that also I declined. I don't care for it. It is very much better to be without news when you cannot be where the news comes from. We are always more contented if we get no news. A good book we like, we explorers. That is our best amusement and our best time killer.

My idea of an amusement park story is getting adventurers to go tour environmental disaster areas. After all, if the entire Great Barrier Reef gets killed, which seems like an extremely lively possibility, what are you going to do with all that rotting limestone?

did of controlled burnings by the native population before the arrival of the first British explorers.29 And the history of that native population is itself long and complex, so one would be hard-pressed to specify the moment at which the forests were "first" touched by humans.

Launching and landing the boats, often chest-deep in water amid the heavy underbrush that lined the riverbank, the men were constantly vulnerable to the predatory fish, waterborne snakes, and other creatures they were disturbing. Even

Treinta y cinco años tenía Pedro de Valdivia cuando llegó con Jerónimo de Alderete a Venezuela, Venecia pequeña, como la llamaron irónicamente los primeros exploradores al ver sus pantanos, canales y chozas en palafitos.

O, how glorious would it be to set my heel upon the Pole and turn myself 360 degrees in a second!

People make their own fates, and if enough of us make our fate to be space explorers, perhaps we can actually get some space exploration done.

Spanish Explorers celebrated Christmas in 1539 in the area we now know as the State of Florida.

I drove from Addis Ababa to Aksum, where they have the Ark of the Covenant, to the Semien Mountains in the Highlands. I love how the country has a distinct identity and historical borders that werent randomly carved up by explorers.

Smade's patrons were diverse: explorers, locaters, Jarnell technicians, private agents in search of lost men or stolen treasure, more rarely an IPCC representative, or "weasel", in the argot of the Beyond. Others were folk more dire, and these were of as many sorts as there were crimes to be named. Making a virtue of necessity, Smade presented the same face to all.

fifty leagues past the cape, they explored a large bay and came upon a caravan of men and camels.

would be coming along with them in one of the ships.

According to this account, the expedition came to a strait, entered it, and sailed west until violent storms

Núñez de Balboa had glimpsed the vast ocean to the west: the Pacific