Surrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti. — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another vision of… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
“Progress can today be defined as man`s ability to complicate simplicity.” — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don't believe it exists. I've felt this again and again, when alone… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
It says in the Bible, in plain words, that God made a self-portrait. He created man in His own image - man and woman… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
Therefore, I feel convinced that any political picture can be changed to suit the needs of the powers that be. — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
Am going to cross Pacific on a wooden raft to support a theory that the South Sea islands were peopled from Peru. Will you… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
Any scientist can testify that a dead ocean means a dead planet .... No national law, no national precautions can save the planet. The… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
“It was a great moment on board when two large boobies were spotted above the horizon to westward” — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe. — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
It is also rarer to find happiness in a man surrounded by the miracles of technology than among people living in the desert of… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
But if we begin thinking about the world being over 100 million years old, then it's absolutely by chance that you and I are… — Thor Heyerdahl Copy Share Image
