Chukchi Quotes

#1. Shell Oil's decision to pull the plug on drilling for oil in the Chukchi Sea is a major victory for the Arctic.

Frances Beinecke

#2. Why should we be startled by death? Life is a constant putting off of the mortal coil - coat, cuticle, flesh and bones, all old clothes.

Henry David Thoreau

#3. I thought everything in the world was already discovered. Already in my books. A lot of dead stuff that put me to sleep. That was the day I understood the world is still living.

Barbara Kingsolver

#4. Those who saw Pope John Paul II either in person or through the mass media glimpsed a man who millions of Catholics believe may be one of the greatest popes in the history of the church.

Chris Matthews

#5. If you make more roads, you will have more traffic.

Jan Gehl

#6. Tender creatures, these aristocrats. Who would have guessed?

Shana Abe

#7. I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

Lionel Shriver

#8. It's a perfect moment to quietly meditate on the cosmic Great Mother who can inspire us all; the divine, feminine Spirit of nurturance known as The Goddess, so revered in ancient times and being rediscovered by women today.

Sarah Ban Breathnach

#9. Ryan was not only gregarious but also a happily married inamorato! (Around the facility, when the other coaches teased him about this episode, Ryan would retort affably, "I'm the only guy in history who gets in a sex scandal with his wife!")

Nicholas Dawidoff

#10. But Geology carries the day: it is like the pleasure of gambling, speculating, on first arriving, what the rocks may be; I often mentally cry out 3 to 1 Tertiary against primitive; but the latter have hitherto won all the bets.

Charles Darwin

#11. I love you like my own sister. Which is why I won't hesitate to tell you that I don't believe it.

Emma Bull