Hudson Stuck

“It is a country that gets into your blood and makes you love it, and curse it, and leave it, and come back to it again.”

“The work of a missionary in Alaska is a work of infinite patience and of infinite hope.”

“The lure of the mountains is a very real and powerful thing. It is a secret and a subtle call. It is a thing that can only be understood by those who have felt it.”

“It is a commonplace that the sublime and the ridiculous are very close together.”

“The wild places of the earth are the great universities of the soul.”

“The only real difficulty of the ascent was the persistent, nagging, intimidating cold.”

“The view from the top is a reward that cannot be bought with money. It is a thing that must be earned.”

“There is a joy in the sting of the wind and the labour of the limbs that is not to be found in any other pursuit.”

“A man who has once looked upon the face of the arctic winter will never forget it.”

“To travel with a dog-sled is to travel with a living, breathing, and sometimes very exasperating engine.”

“It is one of the curious things about the wilderness that it is so full of sounds, and yet so silent.”

“For the first time in my life I felt the utter insignificance of man.”

“The native people of Alaska are a people of great dignity and worth, and they deserve our respect and our help.”

“I have seen the hand of God in the beauty of the wilderness, and in the kindness of the people who live in it.”