Putorana Quotes & Sayings

Unlike
in North America, however, there was no single
giant ice sheet that covered the entire northern half of the continent. The biggest ice sheet
covered all of Scandinavia and extended east as
far as the eastern shore of the White Sea today.
The Urals and parts of the Putorana Plateau in
northern Siberia were also heavily glaciated. In
between, however, and all the way to the Pacific
Coast, only small areas of the highest terrain had
much ice cover. The remainder was ice-free, but
with hundreds of meters of permafrost extending deep into the soil. This may seem counterintuitive, but it can be understood if we remember
that moisture available at cold temperatures is
what makes ice and snow, not the cold temperatures themselves. — Mikhail S. Blinnikov

As I run, I wonder how many of these people helped buy my leg.
I wonder about the deep, wide abyss between good intentions and concrete action, and how many of them leapt across it. — Wendelin Van Draanen

you'll have your city back, all nice and clean and ready to go to the dogs again — Dashiell Hammett

The boredom and annoyance that shut down over it were humiliatingly plain to see. I could have slapped her for it. — Mary Stewart

I love religions and find them fascinating, and I find Judaism very beautiful. It's enriched my life enormously. — Isla Fisher

As beauty is in the eye of the beholder, the ideal library is in the wish of its maker. — Carolyn Wells