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.
Thor HeyerdahlWe have always been taught that navigation is the result of civilization, but modern archeology has demonstrated very clearly that this is not so.
Thor HeyerdahlSurrounded by military airplanes and warships from the world's most civilized and developed nations, we have been denied permission by friendly governments, for reasons of security, to land anywhere, but in the tiny, and still neutral, Republic of Djibouti.
Thor Heyerdahl