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Yukon Quotes

“With the raw-ribbed Wild that abhors all life, the Wild that would crush and rend, I have clinched and closed with the naked North, I have learned to defy and defend; Shoulder to shoulder we have fought it out—yet the Wild must win in the end.”

Poetry Wilderness Endurance Yukon The North

Book:The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses

Source: The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses

“There’s a land—oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back—and I will.”

Nature Canada Wilderness Alaska Americana Gold Rush Yukon Canadian Poetry Klondike Klondike Gold Rush

Book:The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses

Source: The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses

“A bunch of the boys were whooping it up in the Malamute saloon; The kid that handles the music-box was hitting a jag-time tune; Back of the bar, in a solo game, sat Dangerous Dan McGrew, And watching his luck was his light-o'-love, the lady that's known as Lou. When out of the night, which was fifty below, and into the din and the glare, There stumbled a miner fresh from the creeks, dog-dirty, and loaded for bear. He looked like a man with a foot in the grave and scarcely the strength of a louse, Yet he tilted a poke of dust on the bar, and he called for drinks for the house. There was none could place the stranger's face, though we searched ourselves for a clue; But we drank his health, and the last to drink was Dangerous Dan McGrew.”

Book:The Shooting of Dan McGrew and Other Poems

Source: The Shooting of Dan McGrew and Other Poems

“I am a firm believer that every few years one needs to shake one's life through a sieve, like a miner in the Yukon. The gold nuggets remain. The rest falls through like the soft earth it is.”

Needs Years Earth Fall Gold Believer Firm Shakes Miners Nuggets Year One Yukon

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“This is a landmark opportunity for all that live and work in the Yukon. The Territory is now one step closer to realizing the potential that geothermal heat and power has for the economy, the environment, First Peoples, tax-payers and businesses.”

Firsts Opportunity Realizing Steps Economy Environment Taxes Heat Territory Landmarks Geothermal Yukon

Author:Alison Thompson

“Los Angeles is a Yukon for crime-story writers.”

Stories Crime Los Angeles Story Writers Yukon

Author:Christina Stead

“My first trip was the Appalachian Trail, and I was able to finish it despite having no skills and no experience when I started. In comparison, I can think of only a few individuals in the world who have the potential do complete the Alaska-Yukon Expedition.”

Thinking World Firsts I Can Able Individual Skills Despite Comparison Trails Alaska Expeditions Appalachian Trail Yukon

Author:Andrew Skurka

“There's huge, massive mother ships going up to the Yukon. They've been filmed and are on video.”

Mother Games Huge Video Ships Massive Yukon

Author:Dan Aykroyd

“I remember little of the Yukon or what I wrote there.”

Littles Remember Yukon

Author:Robert W. Service

“This is the law of the Yukon, that only the strong shall thrive; that surely the weak shall perish, and only the fit survive.”

Law Strong Fit Survival Weak Thrive Being Strong Yukon

Author:Robert W. Service

“For sheer majestic geography and sublime scale, nothing beats Alaska and the Yukon. For culture, Japan. And for all-around affection, Australia.”

Culture Beats Affection Scales Japan Australia Sheer Sublime Geography Alaska Majestic Yukon

Author:Sam Abell

“When hundreds of thousands of people from all over the world went to the Yukon to look for gold, the original prospectors had already claimed most of it.”

People World Looks Gold Originals Yukon

Author:Howard Blum