Famous quotes containing the words south, west and/or pacific:
“These South savannahs may yet prove battle-fields.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)
“Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures.”
—Jessamyn West (1902–1984)
“It is easier to sail many thousand miles through cold and storm and cannibals, in a government ship, with five hundred men and boys to assist one, than it is to explore the private sea, the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean of one’s being alone.... It is not worth the while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)