Alexander Mackenzie Quotes

Some persons were to be sent in search of the river Missouri in order to discover whether it had any communication with the Pacific Ocean …

We were also fortunate enough to engage in our service a Canadian Frenchmen, who had been with the Chayenne Indians on the Black mountains, and last summer descended thence by the Little Missouri.

The expedition of Messrs. Lewis & Clarke for exploring the river Missouri, & the best communication from that to the Pacific ocean, has had all the success which could have been expected.

America was discovered accidentally by a great seaman who was looking for something else; when discovered it was not wanted; and most of the exploration for the next fifty years was done in the hope of getting through or around it.

Canada is the only country founded on the relentless pursuit of the rodent.

America, when it became known to Europeans, was, as it had long been, a scene of wide-spread revolution.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

Canada was built on dead beavers.

Large parties will never answer the purpose. They will alarm the Indian nations they pass through. Three of four young men well qualified for the task might perhaps compleat your wishes at a very trifling expense.

We have quietly and almost without observation, annexed all the country between here [Ottawa] and the Rocky Mountains.

The first white men of your people who came to our country were named Lewis and Clark.

An explorer cannot stay at home reading maps other men have made.

Christopher Columbus, who said to Queen Isabella, No, you got it wrong! The world is round. You're flat! Never got a dinner!

The explorer who will not come back or send back his ships to tell his tale is not an explorer, only an adventurer; and his sons are born in exile.

Mapping, both literal and metaphorical, has always been about our quest for knowing.

In Grade 2, when we had to do a presentation in front of the class, I'd always do things about Ireland or Italy. I could draw maps; I could name all the capitals: I was completely drawn to other lands. I discovered with time that it's a thirst for other people, for otherness, for something fascinating and mysterious.

In 1805, the explorers Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, making their way across the West, were warned by American Indian tribes of grizzly bears' awesome strength.

Books of exploration have always fascinated me, like somebody going up the Amazon for the first time.

As a kid, I always wanted to be an explorer, to go to exotic places and do exotic things.

The different foods and cultures and geography and art - I could spend my lifetime traveling around India and still not fully know it.

A tourist follows a trail; a mountaineer finds one.

I wanted to go to the extreme in the sense of places that were not explored and meeting people, tribes. I wanted to have an adventure.

I like visiting new places where the game is opening up.

Neither realism nor romance furnishes a more striking and picturesque figure than that of Christopher Columbus. The mystery about his origin heightens the charm of his story.

When I was young I used to have this thing where I wanted to see everything I used to think 'How can I die without seeing every inch of this world?'