#expeditions

I go on expeditions for the same reason an estate agent sells houses - to pay the bills. ↗

— Ranulph Fiennes

#bills #estate #expeditions #go #houses

The troops were occasionally occupied in pursuing scattered bands going north or south, and on three occasions the large camp of Sitting Bull ventured south of the Canadian border, and important expeditions were sent against them. ↗

— Nelson A. Miles

#bands #border #bull #camp #canadian

The negative cost of Lewis and Clark entering the Garden of Eden is that later expeditions regardless of what they were intended to do, later expeditions did not deal with the native peoples with the intelligence with the almost kindly resolve that Lewis and Clark did. ↗

— William Least Heat-Moon

#clark #cost #deal #did #eden

Nobody climbs mountains for scientific reasons. Science is used to raise money for the expeditions, but you really climb for the hell of it. ↗

— Edmund Hillary

#climb #climbs #expeditions #hell #money

Nova Scotia as a British colony also came into being as another result of these adventurous British expeditions to North America in the reign of James I. ↗

— Harry Johnston

#also #america #another #being #british

He thought what a fine thing it was that people made music all over the world, even in the strangest settings – probably even on polar expeditions. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#music

Chasing angels or fleeing demons, go to the mountains. ↗

— Jeffrey Rasley

#expeditions #himalayas #memoir #mountaineering #mountains