Jedediah Smith/the First Trip To California 1826-1827

Famous quotes containing the words smith, trip and/or california:

    What a pity it is that we have no amusements in England but vice and religion!
    —Sydney Smith (1771–1845)

    [A trip to France] will make you adore your own country, it’s soil, it’s climate, it’s equality, liberty, laws, people and manners. My God! How little do my countrymen know what precious blessings they are in possession of, and which no other people on earth enjoy.
    Thomas Jefferson (1743–1826)

    I can’t earn my own living. I could never make anything turn into money. It’s like making fires. A careful assortment of paper, shavings, faggots and kindling nicely tipped with pitch will never light for me. I have never been present when a cigarette butt, extinct, thrown into a damp and isolated spot, started a conflagration in the California woods.
    Margaret Anderson (1886–1973)