French Explorer Quotes

Jacques Cartier

Charles de Foucauld

Samuel de Champlain

Alexandra David-Néel

I am rather inclined to believe that this is the land God gave to Cain.

Jacques Cartier

There is nothing truly serious in life. All words sound hollow when one listens to them carefully.

Alexandra David-Néel

What great faith our Lord Jesus Christ asks of us - and how just that is. Do we not owe him such faith? It looks impossible to us, but Jesus is Master of the impossible.

Charles de Foucauld

My real log is written in the sea and sky; the sails talking with the rain and the stars amid the sounds of the sea, the silences full of secret things between my boat and me, like the times I spent as a child listening to the forest talk.

Bernard Moitessier

The advice I give to all adventurers is to seek a place where they may sleep
in safety.

Samuel de Champlain