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Lewis Thomas
“If we had better hearing, and could discern the descants of sea birds, the rhythmic tympani of schools of mollusks, or even the distant harmonics of midges hanging over meadows in the sun, the combined sound might lift us off our feet.”
Lewis Thomas, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher

Robertson Davies
“Who's Mrs. Gummidge?'

'If you're a good girl and get well soon I'll lend you the book.'

'Oh, somebody in a book! All you people like Nilla and the Cornishes and that man Darcourt seem to live out of books. As if everything was in books!'

'Well, Schnak, just about everything is in books. No, that's wrong. We recognize in books what we've met in life. But if you'd read a few books you wouldn't have to meet everything as if it had never happened before, and take every blow right on the chin. You'd see a few things coming...”
Robertson Davies, The Lyre of Orpheus
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Maurice Herzog
“Annapurna, to which we had gone emptyhanded, was a treasure on which we should live the rest of our days. With this realization we turn the page: a new life begins.

There are other Annapurnas in the lives of men.”
Maurice Herzog, Annapurna, First Conquest of an 8000-Meter Peak:

Roald Amundsen
“Adventure is just bad planning.”
Roald Amundsen

Robert Falcon Scott
“Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.”
Robert Falcon Scott, The Diary of Captain Robert Falcon Scott

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