Explorers and Pioneers
- Punch Dickins, aviator and bush pilot. The Dickinsfield community was named in his honour.
- Wilfrid R. "Wop" May, pioneering aviator and bush pilot
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Famous quotes containing the words explorers and, explorers and/or pioneers:
“The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear the atmosphere of smoke.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“The forests are held cheap after the white pine has been culled out; and the explorers and hunters pray for rain only to clear the atmosphere of smoke.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We are the pioneers of the world; the advance-guard, sent on through the wilderness of untried things, to break a new path in the New World that is ours.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)