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“Always there has been an adventure just around the corner--and the world is still full of corners.”
― Roy Chapman Andrews

“I never let practical considerations clutter my youthful dreams.”
― Roy Chapman Andrews

“Palaeontology is the Aladdin's lamp of the most deserted and lifeless regions of the earth; it touches the rocks and there spring forth in orderly succession the monarchs of the past and the ancient river streams and savannahs wherein they flourished. The rocks usually hide their story in the most difficult and inaccessible places.”
― Roy Chapman Andrews, On the Trail to Ancient Man: A Narrative of the Fieldwork of the Central Asiatic Expeditions

“Today there remain but a few small areas on the world’s map unmarked by explorers’ trails. Human courage and endurance have conquered the Poles; the secrets of the tropical jungles have been revealed. The highest mountains of the earth have heard the voice of man. But this does not mean that the youth of the future has no new worlds to vanquish. It means only that the explorer must change his methods.”
― Roy Chapman Andrews, On the Trail to Ancient Man: A Narrative of the Fieldwork of the Central Asiatic Expeditions

“He was about as stupid as an animal could be and still live.”
― Roy Chapman Andrews, R11 DAYS OF DINOSAURS