Arne Saknussemm Quotes in Journey to the Center of the Earth
I was on the summit of one of the twin peaks of Snäffel […]. I commanded a view of almost the whole island. […] I could have said that one of Helbesmer’s relievo maps lay before me. […] precipices seemed mere walls, lakes changed into ponds, and rivers were little streams. On my right there were glaciers without number, and innumerable peaks […].
[…] I forgot who I was, and where I was […]. I gave myself to the luxury of the heights […].
“[…] if there is any law of increase in temperature, the heat here ought to be 1,500.”
“Ought to be, my boy.”
“And all this granite would be in a state of fusion, as it could not possibly remain in a solid state.”
“You see, however, that it is nothing of the sort, and that facts, as usual, give the lie to theories.”
What another had done I would dare, and nothing to me seemed impossible.
The soul of the professor had passed into me. The spirit of a discoverer pervaded me. I forgot the past, I disdained the future! Nothing existed for me on the face of our planet, in whose bosom I was plunged, neither town nor country, neither Hamburg nor Königstrasse, nor my poor Gräuben, who must think me lost for ever in the bowels of the earth!
Arne Saknussemm Quotes in Journey to the Center of the Earth
I was on the summit of one of the twin peaks of Snäffel […]. I commanded a view of almost the whole island. […] I could have said that one of Helbesmer’s relievo maps lay before me. […] precipices seemed mere walls, lakes changed into ponds, and rivers were little streams. On my right there were glaciers without number, and innumerable peaks […].
[…] I forgot who I was, and where I was […]. I gave myself to the luxury of the heights […].
“[…] if there is any law of increase in temperature, the heat here ought to be 1,500.”
“Ought to be, my boy.”
“And all this granite would be in a state of fusion, as it could not possibly remain in a solid state.”
“You see, however, that it is nothing of the sort, and that facts, as usual, give the lie to theories.”
What another had done I would dare, and nothing to me seemed impossible.
The soul of the professor had passed into me. The spirit of a discoverer pervaded me. I forgot the past, I disdained the future! Nothing existed for me on the face of our planet, in whose bosom I was plunged, neither town nor country, neither Hamburg nor Königstrasse, nor my poor Gräuben, who must think me lost for ever in the bowels of the earth!
