Incas Quotes

“Madre de piedra, espuma de los cóndores.

Alto arrecife de la aurora humana.

Pala perdida en la primera arena.”
― Pablo Neruda, The Heights of Macchu Picchu

“I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.”
― Tahir Shah, In Search of King Solomon's Mines

“Have you ever climbed a mountain in full armour? That's what we did, him going first the whole way up a tiny path into the clouds, with drops sheer on both sides into nothing. For hours we crept forward like blind men, the sweat freezing on our faces, lugging skittery leaking horses, and pricked all the time for the ambush that would tip us into death. Each turn of the path it grew colder. The friendly trees of the forest dropped away, and there were only pines. Then they went too, and there just scrubby little bushes standing up in ice. All round us the rocks began to whine the cold. And always above us, or below us, those filthy condor birds, hanging on the air with great tasselled wings....Four days like that; groaning, not speaking; the breath a blade in our lungs. Four days, slowly, like flies on a wall; limping flies, dying flies, up an endless wall of rock. A tiny army lost in the creases of the moon.”
― Peter Shaffer, The Royal Hunt of the Sun

“Intrepid Dudettes of the Inca Empire is my humble contribution to "herstory", the history of women, the history of our foremothers, the women who made history but were overlooked by history.”
― Helen Pugh

“I cannot understand how this is to come about but come about it must. It seems boy that we move within the confines of our own consciousness, would that I could expand my gaze to become aware of all the activities of my own being.”
― Geoff Widders, Flight of the Shaman