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QOTD: "No man ever wetted clay and then left it, as if there would be bricks by chance and fortune." Plutarch

QOTD: "The natural history of this archipelago is very remarkable: it seems to be a little world within itself." Charles Darwin on Galapagos

QOTD: "It is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves." Sir Edmund Hillary

QOTD: "Never again can I gaze upon the beauty spots of the Earth and enjoy them as being the finest thing I have ever seen. Crater Lake is above them all." Jack London

QOTD: "Organisms don't think of CO2 as a poison. Plants and organisms that make shells, coral, think of it as a building block." Janine Benyus

QOTD: "Fortifications, artillery, foreign aid - will be of no value, unless the ordinary soldier knows that it is he guarding his country." - Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim

QOTD: "When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck to crush him." - Franklin D. Roosevelt

QOTD: "The vastness of Russia devours us." - Gerd von Rundstedt

QOTD: "Sink, burn, capture, destroy. Let nothing pass." - Andrew Cunningham, Battle of Tunisia

QOTD: "The fruits of victory are tumbling into our mouths too quickly." - Emperor Hirohito