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“Nowhere, not at sea, does a man feel more lonely than when riding over the far-reaching, seemingly never-ending plains.”

Men Feels Doe History Sea Lonely Reaching Riding Never Ending

Book:The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places

Source: The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places

“The selective winnowing of time leaves only a few recognizable individuals behind for the historian to light on. Thus the historian who finds the human being more interesting than what the human being has done must inevitably endow the comparatively few individuals he can identify with too great an importance in relation to their time. Even so, I prefer this overestimate to the opposite method which treats developments as though they were the massive anonymous waves of an unhuman sea or pulverizes the fallible surviving records of human life into the grey dust of statistics.”

“There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.”

“I was alive when the Dead Sea was just a lake that was feeling a little poorly.”

Littles Feelings History Alive Sea Lakes Magnus Bane City Of Ashes

Book:City of Ashes

Source: City of Ashes

“Animals are molded by natural forces they do not comprehend. To their minds there is no past and no future. There is only the everlasting present of a single generation, its trails in the forest, its hidden pathways in the the air and in the sea. There is nothing in the Universe more alone than Man. He has entered into the strange world of history.”

Men World Mind Past Universe Force Natural Animal History Generations Air Sea Strange Forests Everlasting Trails Pathways Strange World

Author:Loren Eiseley

“Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.”

World Light Left History Sun Sea Curiosity Following Ships World History Old World Sailing And The Sea Medieval War Sailing Ships

Author:Christopher Columbus

“The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.”

War History Sea Glory Discretion Rendezvous North Sea

Author:Barbara Tuchman