“It’s only a two-day hike. But it lasts a lifetime.”— National Geographic Society Related Quotes “Nothing new about death, nothing new about deaths caused militarily. We scorched and boiled and baked to death more people in Tokyo on that night of March 9-10 than went up in vapor at Hiroshima and Nagasaki combined.”— Ronald Schaffer “He would sit down and consider the situation carefully. Not only did this help to identify the solution to the problem, but it also gave him the opportunity to remind himself that things were not really as bad as they seemed; it was all a question of perspective. Sitting down and looking up at the sky for a few minutes–not at any particular part of the sky, but just at the sky in general–at the vast, dizzying, empty sky of Botswana, cut human problems down to size.”— Alexander McCall Smith “There are 1,198,500,000 people alive now in China. To get a feel for what that means, simply take yourself – in all your singularity, importance, complexity, and love – and multiply by 1,198,500,000. See? Nothing to it.”— Annie Dillard