"Great numbers of the Indians pass our camp on their hunting excursions: the day was clear and pleasant, but last night was very cold and there was a white frost."

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Source : Meriwether Lewis (2012). “History of the Expedition under the Command of Captains Lewis and Clark, Vol. I. To the Sources of the Missouri, Thence Across the Rocky Mountains and Down the River Columbia to the Pacific Ocean. Performed During the Years 1804-5-6.”, p.197, tredition

Meriwether Lewis

#Night Quotes #Hunting Quotes #White Quotes

“I read your secrets to escape from my own.”
“[T]he laws of quantum mechanics itself cannot be formulated ... without recourse to the concept of consciousness.”
“A man's whole life / may be a metaphor - but a woman's lot / is symbol.”

Source : Francisco X. Alarcón, Lorna Dee Cervantes (1989). “Chicanas Y Chicanos en Diálogo”
“Everything is connected to everything else. Everything must go somewhere. Nature knows best. There is no such thing as a free lunch. If you don't put something in the ecology, it's not there.”
“My grandfather taught me generosity. He sold snow cones in Harlem. I went with him at 5 and he let me hand out the change and snow cones. I learned a lot in the couple of years that we did that.”
“The breadth of the potential readership is also a factor.”
“I have never met a villager who does not want a vote.”
“May the wind under your wings bear you where the sun sails and the moon walks.”

Source : J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.65, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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