Quote of the day
I don't say 'Tis impossible for an impudent man not to rise in the world, but a moderate merit with a large share of impudence is more probable to be advanced than the greatest qualifications without it.
Richard Proenneke
Born: May 4, 1916
Died: April 20, 2003 (aged 86)
Bio: Richard Louis "Dick" Proenneke was an amateur naturalist who lived alone for nearly thirty years in the mountains of Alaska in a log cabin he had constructed by hand near the shore of Twin Lakes.