Roy Chapman Andrews famous quotes

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

#Adventure #World #Stills

In the [first] fifteen years [of field work] I can remember just ten times when I had really narrow escapes from death. Two were from drowning in typhoons, one was when our boat was charged by a wounded whale; once my wife and I were nearly eaten by wild dogs, once we were in great danger from fanatical lama priests; two were close calls when I fell over cliffs, once I was nearly caught by a huge python, and twice I might have been killed by bandits.
-- Roy Chapman Andrews

#Dog #Years #Whales

I was born to be an explorer. There never was any decision to make. I coudn't be anything else and be happy,the desire to see new places, to discover new facts- the curiosity of life always has been a resistless driving force to me.
-- Roy Chapman Andrews

#Decision #Curiosity #Desire

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

#Mean #Men #Voice

I never let practical considerations clutter my youthful dreams.
-- Roy Chapman Andrews

#Dream #Consideration #Clutter

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

#Spring #Science #Past

Man is an ape with possibilities.
-- Roy Chapman Andrews

#Men #Humanity #Apes

I wanted to go everywhere. I would have started on a day's notice for the North Pole or the South, to the jungle or the desert. It made not the slightest difference to me.
-- Roy Chapman Andrews

#Differences #Desert #Made

Our point isn't to make an examination of popular film but to illustrate that the yearning for a heroic adventure lies just beneath the surface of our consciousness; film, television, literature, sports, and travel are in a sense vicarious adventures.

Interestingly, it's as though the gospel story of Jesus is the archetypal heroic journey, the embodiment of the very adventure that all people in every epoch have desired.

Photographs are of course about their makers, and are to be read for what they disclose in that regard no less than for what they reveal of the world as their makers comprehend, invent, and describe it.

And how am I to face the odds Of man's bedevilment and God's? I, a stranger and afraid In a world I never made.

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

Let me tell you, though: being the smartest boy in the world wasn’t easy. I didn’t ask for this. I didn’t want this. On the contrary, it was a huge burden. First, there was the task of keeping my brain perfectly protected. My cerebral cortex was a national treasure, a masterpiece of the Sistine Chapel of brains. This was not something that could be treated frivolously. If I could have locked it in a safe, I would have. Instead, I became obsessed with brain damage.

I love drums and still play frequently.

As great as technology is, it still has it's limitations, because it's only a frame of the truth

Stand still. The trees ahead and bush beside you are not lost.

To be excited is still to be unsatisfied.