Siberia Quotes

I have a number of places on my wish list, including Antarctica, the Norwegian fjords, and the Amazon. I have a passion for wilderness, and Siberia is on my list – however, that may be a bridge too far.

The young think that failure is the Siberian end of the line, banishment from all the living, and tend to do what I then did – which was to hide.

Siberia is a state of mind.

If we had to preach to thousands year after year, and never rescued but one soul, that one soul would be a full reward for all our labour, for a soul is of countless price.

I am shocked, truly shocked. I was in Siberia a few weeks ago, and I am now just back in from the field in Alaska. The permafrost is melting fast all over the Arctic, lakes are forming everywhere and methane is bubbling up out of them.

The rain forest has Sting. Now Siberia has Jack Dee. Someone had to draw the short straw. In this case it was the rain forest.

Even in Siberia there is happiness.

It turns out that there are swaths of habitat in the north of Siberia and Yukon that actually could house a mammoth. Remember, this was a highly plastic animal that lived over tremendous climate variation.

The most ultimately righteous of all wars is a war with savages.

I am the lead on NBC’s ‘Siberia,’ and I loved that experience.

In the event that we don’t want to lose the Far East and Siberia, we need a united Europe.

The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.

My father did not have a lot of security in his life. He did odd jobs. He had a real struggle to make money. He lost a lot of time in his 20s, after the war, because he was sent to a forced-labour camp in Siberia.

I knew, starting in 10th grade, I wanted to be in theater and an actor. I went to acting school in Siberia, but there was no future there – and I was consumed with ambition.

I was born behind the Iron Curtain, and I remember heated discussions about large-scale terra-forming projects, such as reversing the direction of the river Ob or putting up large reflectors into space to heat up Siberia.

Long Way Round’ was the first time Ewan and I had done anything like that. We went through Mongolia and Siberia and places like that, so it was very tough.

So you set out to travel to Rome… and end up in Istanbul. You set off for Japan… and you end up on a train across Siberia. The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder.

I was friends with Russians who said I should see Russia. I went there in ’93 and it was so exciting, and I went to Siberia and had a great time.

The journey, not the destination, becomes a source of wonder

the only way Bex would miss this would be if she were unconscious. And tied up. And in a concrete bunker. In Siberia.

We’ll all say that. We’ll all go on and make the place safe. Roads, cities. New sky, new soil. Until it’s all some kind of Siberia or Northwest Territories, and Mars will be gone and we’ll be here, and we’ll wonder why we feel so empty. Why when we look at the land we can never see anything but our own faces.

Siberia is so big, it’s almost more an idea than a place

The neighborhood I grew up in had this fence that surrounds the watershed. And if you go on the other side of that fence, there’s nothing until the North Pole and down to Siberia. It’s the absolute cutoff point between man and nature.

We get to travel to Siberia, Japan, China, Australia, South America and even the little cities all around America. It’s probably my favorite thing about being in a band.

The muttered hint, “Remember, you have a stroke here,” freezes my joints like a blast from Siberia.

The Japanese scientists just found a 25,000-year-old mammoth in the ice in Siberia, and they’re about to clone it… You think the Japanese of all people would want nothing to do with prehistoric animals after what happened with Godzilla.

You can find dozens of books about people taking the Trans-Siberian Railroad. I knew I had to do something different to cross Siberia. To drive and to talk with people along the way, that was how I wrote my book ‘Great Plains’. I drove and camped in Siberia, but did not have a real program.

You can hit my father over the head with a chair and he won’t wake up, but my mother, all you have to do to my mother is cough somewhere in Siberia and she’ll hear you.

I have always been more comfortable with daredevil acts than with the everyday nuances of life. Let me jump out of a plane, speak in front of a roomful of strangers, even trek across Siberia.

In the middle of Siberia I guess there’s a lake that big [ like the Great Lakes], but there are practically no other lakes that big with fresh water.

The Arctic Ocean encircles with a belt of eternal ice the desert confines of Siberia and North America–the uttermost limits of the Old and New worlds, separated by the narrow, channel, known as Behring’s Straits.

Every Teen Challenge ministry is responsible for raising its own finances, but we assist these works with finances, prayer and counseling, especially overseas in areas such as Siberia, Africa, South America.

I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.

If we brought the mammoth back to Siberia, maybe that would be good for the ecosystems that are changing because of climate change.

The Far East and Eastern Siberia are already developing according to a Chinese scenario, the full scope of which will be revealed in the near future. In the next 10 to 15 years, a lot of Russian territories will become at least de facto Chinese. This will change the situation in Russia fundamentally.

But love, whether in Multan or on Siberia’s icy tundra, whether in the winter or the summer, whether among the rich or the poor, whether among the beautiful or the ugly, whether among the crude or refined, love is always just love. There’s no difference.