“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean." – Arthur C. Clarke

"One learns from the sea how little one needs, not how much." – Robin Lee Graham, Dove

"Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you."
— Richard Aldington

But it is also true that one will never experience in the Arctic anything that one has not oneself brought there. — Christiane Ritter (A Woman in the Polar Night)

“Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." – Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)

"Memory is the space in which a thing happens for the second time." — Paul Auster, Moon Palace

“The history of football is a sad voyage from beauty to duty." - Eduardo Galeano (Soccer in Sun and Shadow)

"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it." — Robert Swan

"The more you know, the less you need.” – Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia founder):

“For here there are no days because there are no nights. One day melts into the next, and you cannot say this is the end of today and now it is tomorrow and that was yesterday.” – Christiane Ritter (A Woman in the Polar Night)

Angst macht den Wolf größer, als er ist. (Fear makes the wolf look bigger) — German proverb

D'arcy. Dolores. Florence. Herbert. Bono. All Wegbegleiter. Companions to me, unknown to them. They never knew I was in the room. They shaped it anyway.

"Ghosts never frighten people who are used to them." — Paul Auster, The Locked Room

"Per aspera ad astra." Through hardships to the stars.

"Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day." — Albert Camus

“The right moment does not come before the work. The right moment is the work, already in motion.” – RMK

"The dead are not absent, they are invisible." — Victor Hugo

“I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you” – Capt. Wolf Larsen - The Sea Wolf

“Mars is not a Plan B. It is a monument to distraction and fantasy”. – RMK

“I don’t think art should be comfortable. It should be unsettling.” — David Bowie