"...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found……" — Jack London
"...men, groping in the Arctic darkness, had found a yellow metal, and because steamship and transportation companies were booming the find, thousands of men were rushing into the Northland. These men wanted dogs, and the dogs they wanted were heavy dogs, with strong muscles by which to toil, and furry coats to protect them from the frost."
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95 Quotes by Jack London
Jack London has 95 quotes on this site.
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You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
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The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to…
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Life is not a matter of holding good cards, but sometimes, playing a poor hand well.
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A bone to the dog is not charity. Charity is the bone shared with the dog, when you are just…
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I would rather be a superb meteor, every atom of me in magnificent glow, than a sleepy and permanent planet.
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If cash comes with fame, come fame; if cash comes without fame, come cash.
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Darn the wheel of the world! Why must it continually turn over? Where is the reverse gear?
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the…
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Life is so short. I would rather sing one song than interpret the thousand.
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San Francisco is gone. Nothing remains of it but memories.
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I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze…
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A vast silence reigned over the land. The land itself was a desolation, lifeless, without movement, so lone and cold…
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Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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We had an electrical fault about 500 miles into the trip and lost more than half our fuel. We had…
— Richard Branson
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There is a river in the ocean. In the severest droughts it never fails, and in the mightiest floods it…
— Matthew Fontaine Maury
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Drilling in the Refuge is completely unnecessary when we could improve the average fuel economy of cars, minivans and SUV's…
— Ed Markey
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...Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica,…
— Kevin E. Trenberth
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Remember...this year has already seen more billion-dollar weather-related disasters than any year in US history. Last year was the warmest…
— Bill McKibben
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The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want…
— William O. Douglas
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For the first time in history, my community has had to use air conditioners. Imagine that, air conditioners in the…
— Sheila Watt-Cloutier
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According to the University of Illinois' Arctic Climate Research Center, global sea ice levels now equal those of 1979.
— George Will
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There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we…
— Antoine de Saint-Exupery
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The Old Religion, as we call it, is closer in spirit to Native American traditions or to shamanism of the…
— Starhawk
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For as long as I can remember, I have loved snow and ice. As a result, I have spent most…
— Lonnie Dupre
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