Ian Frazier Quotes
Every once in a while, people need to be in the presence of things that are really far away.

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America is a leap of the imagination. From its beginning, people had only a persistent idea of what a good country should be. The idea involved freedom, equality, justice, and the pursuit of happiness; nowadays most of us probably could not describe it a lot more clearly than that. Th . . . Read more

-Ian Frazier
Siberia is so big, it’s almost more an idea than a place

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Scientists estimate that the Siberian permafrost holds the remains of 150 million mammoths—or about 8 million more than the 142 million Russians aboveground in Russia today.

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She said being inside a language was like being in a person's house - after a while you came to see why the teapot was where it was.

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It reflects like an optical instrument and responds to changes in the weather so sensitively that it seems like a part of the sky rather than of the land. And along with all that, Baikal is distinctly Asiatic: if a camel caravan could somehow transport Baikal across Siberia to Europe, . . . Read more

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Would Crazy Horse have spent this much to remodel a kitchen?

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Some settlers began with no implements but an ax. In conversation, the subject of axes--their ideal weight, their proper helves--was more popular than politics or religion. A man who made good axes, who knew the secrets of tempering the steel and getting the center of gravity right, r . . . Read more

-Ian Frazier