Travel stories, quotes and fun facts

The mountains are calling

The mountains are calling and I must go.

In every walk with nature

In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.

Climb the mountains

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees.

Going out was going in

I only went out for a walk and finally concluded to stay out till sundown, for going out, I found, was really going in.

Greenland's ice is kilometres thick

The Greenland ice sheet averages about 1.5 kilometres thick and presses the island's bedrock down below sea level in places.

The stone that fit exactly

Our guide slid a bank card at a joint in the Inca wall and it would not enter. He did this for tourists twenty times a day, and it still made everyone go quiet.

Take only memories

Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time.

The road is life

Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life.

Nothing behind me

Nothing behind me, everything ahead of me, as is ever so on the road.

I went to the woods

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life.

In wildness is the preservation

In wildness is the preservation of the world.

Not till we are lost

Not till we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

Live in each season

Live in each season as it passes; breathe the air, drink the drink, taste the fruit.

The question is not what you look at

The question is not what you look at, but what you see.

Two roads diverged

Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the one less travelled by, and that has made all the difference.

Miles to go

The woods are lovely, dark and deep, but I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.

Canada has the longest coastline

Canada's coastline runs over 200,000 kilometres, longer than the next ten countries combined thanks to its Arctic islands.

Canada holds most of the world's lakes

Canada contains more lake area than the rest of the world put together, with over two million lakes.

Newfoundland has its own time zone

Newfoundland runs half an hour ahead of Atlantic time, a 30-minute offset kept since 1935.

Churchill is the polar bear capital

Bears gather near Churchill each autumn waiting for Hudson Bay to freeze, and the town leaves cars unlocked as bear shelters.

Quebec keeps French alive

Quebec's language laws protect French in commerce and signage, and it is the only province where French is the sole official language.

The Rockies have a spiral tunnel

Two figure-eight tunnels were bored into the mountains in 1909 to reduce a dangerously steep railway grade.

Canada's national park is bigger than Switzerland

Wood Buffalo National Park covers about 44,800 square kilometres, larger than Switzerland.

Alaska is the widest state

Alaska crosses the 180th meridian, making it both the westernmost and easternmost state in the United States.