Traveler

🇺🇸Anthony Bourdain

boiling

1956–2018

"You have to love a town where you can both smoke and gamble in a pharmacy."

🇮🇹Christopher Columbus

Technology

1451–1506

"I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view by reason of this great river, and by this sea which is fresh."

Jack London

Literature

1905–1966

"The loneliness of the man is slowly being borne in upon me. There is not a man aboard but hates or fears him, nor is there a man whom he does not despise."

🇬🇧Gerald Durrell

Science

"Right in the Heart of the African Jungle a small white man lives. Now there is one extraordinary fact about him that he is the friend of all animals."

Harry Johnston

Art

1858–1927

"It is the first rational exposition of the relations of mankind to the mystery which shrouds the how and wherefore of man's existence, the first honest protest against our long, long martyrdom."

Nicholas Roerich

Philosophy

1874–1947

"They will ask, "Can the time of Maitreya create a New Era?" Answer, "If the Crusades brought a new age, then truly the Era of Maitreya is a thousandfold more significant." In such consciousness should one proceed."

🇺🇸Bill Bryson

Literature

b. 1951

"Absolute brain size does not tell you everything — or possibly sometimes even much. Elephants and whales both have brains larger than ours, but you wouldn't have much trouble outwitting them in contract negotiations."

🇬🇧Wilfred Thesiger

Military

1910–2003

"They strolled with me through the streets hand in hand, as is usual with Arab friends, but I was lightly uncomfortable, having re-acquired my inhibitions with my trousers."

🇬🇧Richard Francis Burton

Military

1821–1890

"The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself."

🇮🇹Maurizio Giuliano

Literature

b. 1975

"The fragmentation of armed groups is among our major concerns"

Hans Christian Andersen

Literature

Romanticism

1805–1875

"Life is like a beautiful melody, only the lyrics are messed up."

🇺🇸Christopher McCandless

Politics

1968–1992

"I HAVE HAD A HAPPY LIFE AND THANK THE LORD. GOODBYE AND MAY G B All!"

🇬🇧Paul Brunton

Philosophy

1898–1981

"The Bhagavad Gita contains the mental quintessence and successful synthesis of the various systems of religion and philosophy it offers a unique epitome of the high culture of prehistoric India."

"Doing GPL work is doing charity work in our current legal and economic framework."

"In the west, we believe we are the most progressive and socially just, but a lot of that is just a hopeful illusion."