This has been re-posted from the NYTimes Lens blog, check below for the whole series.
http://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/11/18/natural-history-not-so-natural-setting/?hp#
"A man's life is all a matter of mountains and caves--mountains we must climb, caves where we hide when we can't face our mountains" - unknown "A man's character is his fate" - Heraclitus "Traveling makes one modest-you realize what a tiny place you occupy in the world." - Flaubert "Life is like a book and a person who doesn't travel only reads one page" - uknown