The more I see as I sit here among the rocks, the more I wonder about what I am not seeing.

— Richard Proenneke

The name Alaska is probably an abbreviation of Alaska, derived from the original Aleut word agunalaksh, which means "the shores where the sea breaks its back." The war between water and land is never-ending. Waves shatter themselves in spent fury against the rocky bulwarks of the coast; giant tides eat away the sand beaches and alter the entire contour of an island overnight; williwaw winds pour down the side of a volcano like snow sliding off a roof, building to a hundred-mile velocity in a matter of minutes and churning the ocean into a maelstrom where the stoutest vessels founder.

— Corey Ford

The pigs can't stop the fox; I'm too quick,' Tatum said to himself. "I can rhyme while I run; I'm that slick.

— John Green

There’s a land—oh, it beckons and beckons, And I want to go back—and I will.

— Robert Service

There's been a lot to get used to here." Esther laughed. "Isn't that the truth. I don't know if you ever get used to it really. It just gets in your blood so that you can't stand to be anywhere else.

— Eowyn Ivey

They forget that we, too, have earned the right to live! So I say if we are going to die, my friend, let us die trying, not sitting.

— Velma Wallis

When D's cabin caught fire, D was out of the country. Half the town-Christians and drinkers alike-came out to fight the fire and loot the cabin. There were individual piles of loot, and fights over the piles. "That's my pile." "The hell it is, it's mine.

— John McPhee

With all the global warming going around nowadays, it would only take the stubbornness of a mule and the patience of a sitting duck to achieve what no man has ever done before – namely melt the ice in a wax figure’s beaten heart that was chopped off and hidden 50 meters under the polar ice caps in Alaska, to protect it from feeling.

— Will Advise

You Can See Russia From America! There are two small Islands in the middle of the Bering Straits that are 2.4 miles apart, and have the “International Date Line” running between them. The larger Island to the west is Russian and is named Romanov Island. It is considered the last island in the far eastern reach of Asia. Little Diomede Island or Signal Island, belongs to Alaska and is the easternmost of the two islands. It is as far west as you can go before reaching the “International Date Line.” Although the two islands are within easy sight of each other they are 24 hours apart, with one being in tomorrow and the other being in today. There are approximately 170, mostly Native Americans, living on the smaller American island. During winter, an ice bridge usually spans the distance between these two islands, therefore there are times when it is possible to walk between the United States and Russia. This little stroll can be dangerous and is not advised; however at this location you can definitely see Russia from America. This information is from Captain Hank Bracket's award-winning book "The Exciting Story of Cuba" available from Amazon. Com.

— Hank Bracker

You can't just make me different and then leave

— John Green