Thor Heyerdahl Quotes

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• Land! An island! We devoured it greedily with our eyes and woke the others, who tumbled out drowsily and stared in all directions as if…
• I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.
• This world has seen a great many civilizations. And many of them have survived for longer periods than ours up to the present. They were…
• It is progress when weapons are improved to kill more people at a longer range.
• It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign.
• For every minute, the future is becoming the past.
• In a city a man may feel second to none. But alone in the immensity of the universe, among all the creatures that preceded man…
• We have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.
• 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 sitting…
• We are not talking about esthetics. We are talking about life: survival of Man. We must train young people to get another vision of Nature.…
• Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this…
• Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.
• In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.
• Those who have experienced the most, have suffered so much that they have ceased to hate. Hate is more for those with a slightly guilty…
• In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its…
• 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 tell…
• A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn't even exist in nature and…
• 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 and…
• I was in uniform for four years, and I know that heroism doesn't occur from taking orders, but rather from people who through their own…
• I don't believe in war as a solution to any kind of conflict, nor do I believe in heroism on the battlefield because I have…

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