"Almost a quarter of our planet is a single mountain range and we didn't enter it until after Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin went to the moon. So we went to the moon, played golf up there, before we went to the largest feature on our own planet."

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Source : "The astonishing hidden world of the deep ocean". TED Talk, www.ted.com. February, 2008.

Robert Ballard

#Golf Quotes #Moon Quotes #Mountain Quotes

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