Quotes on jungle

The situation was different in the jungle. Every inch of ground had to be earned, and was done so through much exertion with the blade.

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There comes a stage at which a man would rather die cleanly by a bullet than by the unknown terror of the phantom in the forest.

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On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.

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The inertia of a jungle village is a dangerous thing. Before you know it your whole life has slipped by and you are still waiting there.

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We'd never seen anything as green as these rice paddies. It was not just the paddies themselves: the surrounding vegetation - foliage so dense the trees lost track of whose leaves were whose - was a rainbow coalition of one colour: green. There was an infinity of greens, rendered all the greener by splashes of red hibiscus and the herons floating past, so white and big it seemed as if sheets hung out to dry had suddenly taken wing. All other colours - even purple and black - were shades of green. Light and shade were degrees of green. Greenness, here, was less a colour than a colonising impulse. Everything was either already green - like a snake, bright as a blade of grass, sidling across the footpath - or in the process of becoming so. Statues of the Buddha were mossy, furred with green.

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Spend sixteen weeks in the jungle and you being to question your own sanity, especially when you are the one goading everyone else ahead.

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