“The human race, my intuition tells me, is not outside the cosmic process and is not an accident. It is as much a part of the universe as the trees, the mountains, the aurora, and the stars.”

— Richard Evelyn Byrd

Source: Alone (1938), Ch. 6

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Medal of Honor recipient and United States Navy officer 1888–1957

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