“Maybe ever’body in the whole damn world is scared of each other.”
—John Steinbeck, “Of Mice and Men”
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The Alaskan Mosquito
The flight characteristics of Alaskan mosquitoes have been greatly exaggerated. It is not true that they are as large as vultures. It is not true that antiaircraft outfits fresh from the States have opened fire on them, thinking they were Japanese Zeroes. Their tail assemblage is entirely different.”
— Eleventh Air Force pilot, 1943
Quoted in “The Thousand Mile War” by Brian Garfield
Changes
“Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.”
—Anthony Bourdain
Dawning of the day
“And I think over again
My small adventures
When with a shore wind I drifted out
In my kayak
And thought I was in danger.
My fears,
Those small ones
That I thought so big,
For all the vital things
I had to get and to reach.
And yet, there is only
One great thing,
The only thing:
To live to see in huts and on journeys
The great day that dawns,
And the light that fills the world.”
— An Eskimo song translated by Knud Rasmussen
in “Intellectual Culture of the Copper Eskimos”
On the horizon
“At length the Rocky Mountains came in sight like shining white clouds on the horizon, but we doubted what our guide said; but as we proceeded,
they rose in height, their immense masses of snow appeared above the
clouds, and formed an impassable barrier, even to the Eagle.”
— David Thompson
“The greatest good you can do for another, is not to share your own riches, but to reveal to him, his own.”
—Benjamin Disraeli
Silence is Profit
One of the best messages yet from a company Christmas card:
“Work hard in silence, let your success be your noise.”
After all, it worked for Colonel Nicholson…
The usage in this case may not have been in the spirit of the initial intent by Frank Ocean.
Miles Canyon, Yukon River
The steamer Clifford Sifton shooting Miles Canyon circa 1900. Photo credit: Major James Skitt Matthews
“Through this narrow chute of corrugated rock the wild waters of the great river rush in a perfect mass of milk-like foam, with a reverberation that is audible for a considerable distance, the roar being intensified by the rocky walls which act like so many sounding boards. Huge spruce trees in sombre files overshadow the dark canyon, and it resembles a black thoroughfare paved with the whitest of marble.”
— Frederick Schwatka
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