Quotes & Sayings About Mammoth Cave

After a night's sleep the news is as indispensable as the breakfast. "Pray tell me anything new that has happened to a man anywhere on this globe"
and he reads it over his coffee and rolls, that a man has had his eyes gouged out this morning on the Wachito River; never dreaming the while that he lives in the dark unfathomed mammoth cave of this world, and has but the rudiment of an eye himself. — Henry David Thoreau

In an era when man can no longer dash out of his cave and slay a mammoth, he simply slips on his Lycra and goes for a run. — Phil Hewitt

The red mammoth in the cave at Pindal is very special because its heart, also red, is depicted inside its chest. — Juan Luis Arsuaga

I was a little doubtful about the propriety of going to the Mammoth Cave without a gentleman escort, but if two ladies travel alone they must have the courage of men. — Maria Mitchell