Thor Heyerdahl (6 October 1914 – 18 April 2002) was a Norwegian adventurer and ethnographer with a background in biology with specialization in zoology, botany and geography.
Famous Thor Heyerdahl Quotes
Progress is man’s ability to complicate simplicity.For every minute, the future is becoming the past.One learns more from listening than speaking.And both the wind and the people who continue to live close to nature still have much to tell us which we cannot hear within university walls.In my experience, it is rarer to find a really happy person in a circle of millionaires than among vagabonds.In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord.I also believe that when one dies, one may wake up to the reality that proves that time does not exist.I have never been able to grasp the meaning of time. I don’t believe it exists. I’ve felt this again and again, when alone and out in nature. On such occasions, time does not exist. Nor does the future exist.It is progress when a centuries-old oak is cut down to give space for a road sign.It is progress when weapons are improved to kill more people at a longer range.A civilized nation can have no enemies, and one cannot draw a line across a map, a line that doesn’t even exist in nature and say that the ugly enemy lives on the one side, and good friends live on the other.Circumstances cause us to act the way we do. We should always bear this in mind before judging the actions of others. I realized this from the start during World War II.Man invents the most inhuman armaments to assault others so like himself that uniforms are needed to distinguish between friend and foe.Tags:Thor Heyerdahl, Thor Heyerdahl Quotes, Top 12 Thor Heyerdahl Quotes
