Congo Quote by Jeremy Wade Download Open image “I go to the Congo or the Amazon, but every river has its mystery of what is down there.” — Jeremy Wade ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Congo Down Go Mystery River
I'd really like to go down the Amazon in some capacity. I've spent time in the Congo, so I love the jungle. — Sean Pertwee Copy Share Image
I cannot forget the place that I come from. The Congo is much in need. — Dikembe Mutombo Copy Share Image
A river seems a magic thing. A magic, moving, living part of the very earth itself. — Laura Gilpin Copy Share Image
“The activities of La Condamine, Humboldt, Wallace, Bates, and other such explorers touched on only the tiniest fraction of the vastness of a world… — Kurt Johnson Copy Share Image
“The Zaire River, for example, is 2,900 miles long and has a volume of water second only to that of the Amazon, but its… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Most of the Amazon basin is as flat as a pancake and laced with extravagantly meandering waterways. One school of thought holds that more… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
A river, though, has so many things to say that it is hard to know what it says to each of us. — Norman Maclean Copy Share Image
There is Bengal, and Bihar, Barakor river is in the middle of them; so strange, so profound! No other river (not even Ganga) has… — Sukanta Bhattacharya Copy Share Image
It is one thing to hear about the forest and the river, but an entirely other experience to go there, to see the environment,… — Chris Kilham Copy Share Image
Typically, settlements, habitations, roads and major trails are in river valleys and on bodies of water. If you are lost, your best bet is… — Steven Rinella Copy Share Image
We all need a bit of mystery in our lives, and rivers offer plenty of that. — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Just as a drop of water in the ocean cannot avail much; but if a great river runneth into it, that maketh a great… — Jakob Bohme Copy Share Image
Normally, you want the river when the water is low and not when it's flooded. For example, there are parts of the Amazon where… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
The way that we live with potentially dangerous animals is not to kill them, but to understand them and to coexist with them. — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
I grew up in a little village in England that had a river running through it so I've been fishing from a very early… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
I actually found contracting malaria in the Congo fascinating. Observing your body under attack from this microorganism and seeing how it responds is simultaneously… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Sea water is clear and you can put the camera in sea water and you can see stuff, whereas freshwater is often zero visibility. — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Florida's nice and warm, there's all sorts of stuff living there that shouldn't be there! — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
I have caught some big eels in New Zealand, where the climate is very similar to Scotland. But they grow to around five feet… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
The most fascinating and satisfying encounter so far was the goliath tigerfish of the Congo. I first caught one in 1991, and then again… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
We all need a bit of mystery in our lives, and rivers offer plenty of that. — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
Normally if you are in a boat, you can follow a fish around, but if you are on the shore, you have to pull… — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
The worst thing that happened when filming 'River Monsters' was the time when our sound recordist was hit by lightning. — Jeremy Wade Copy Share Image
“No one can know, of course, accurate population figures from an era before there was a census, but many officials on the ground at… — Adam Hochschild Copy Share Image
“My rights to the Congo are not for sharing; they are the fruits of my labours and my expenditures . . . The adversaries… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“I don't know how to stop the atrocities. I don't know how to make people care. But looking into my sister's eyes, we seem… — Lisa Shannon Copy Share Image
Sometimes I wish eastern Congo could suffer an earthquake or a tsunami, so that it might finally get the attention it needs. The barbaric… — Nicholas D. Kristof Copy Share Image
“In little more than a generation, the Belgian king’s yearning for empire and fortune may have killed ten million people in the territory—half of… — Howard W. French Copy Share Image
“Stanley must have realized that this postponement would probably be fatal. But while he did not give up, he never for a moment thought… — Tim Jeal Copy Share Image
I started, actually, as an analyst on African affairs, mainly on Al Jazeera. I remember the first few series were about Saudi students, and… — Wadah Khanfar Copy Share Image
I can't be calm when I drive through sections of Atlanta that look more like Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of Congo, than America. — Cynthia McKinney Copy Share Image
In abstract mathematics or abstract art, the purpose is to describe inner states of our mind, and to explore the limits of our own… — Anjan Sundaram Copy Share Image
“The country is like a great sponge—it finally absorbs you. Eventually you will get malaria or you will get dysentery and whatever you do,… — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
There are places that I've always wanted to go. First I went to Africa, and when I was there I realized there were places… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
The Congo is very wealthy from oil money but is not paying its debts and at the same time is applying for special status… — Paul Singer Copy Share Image
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