Author of quotes: Vladimir Arsenyev

Man soon forgets danger. As soon as she passes, he immediately begins to joke.

Having reached the Kulumbe River, I sat down on a stone and began to listen to the quiet, whispering sounds that always fill the taiga during twilight hours. The vast ocean, the sleepy land and the deep dark sky with millions of unknown stars seemed equally majestic.

Mountainous country from a bird's eye view! What a beauty! Everywhere you look there are mountains, their peaks, sometimes spiky like cockscombs, sometimes smooth like a plateau, sometimes dome-shaped like a sea swell, hid behind each other, went into the distance and seemed to dissolve in the darkness.

On another evening, sitting by the fire, I read the arrows Of a fairy tale "the fisherman and the fish". Dersu at this time, something hewn with an axe. It stopped working, quietly put the axe to the ground and, without changing posture, without turning his head, began to listen. When I finished the story, Dersu stood up and said:
- Right, like this woman a lot there. He even spat with vexation and went on. the Poor old man. He would have thrown this woman, would make Morocco Yes would have roamed to another location.
We all burst out laughing. Immediately affected by the sight of stray native. The best way out of this situation, in his opinion, was to make a boat and migrate to another place. Later that evening, I walked over to the fire. Wood sat Dersu and thoughtfully staring at the fire. I asked him what he was thinking.
- Very sorry for the man. It was a gentle people. How many times you go to the sea, the fish shout, perhaps really wear down your boots.

Dersu, against expectations, took his sea legs. He and the destroyer is considered as a living creature.
My well-understand - it, - he pointed to the destroyer "Grozny", - today very angry.

Incidentally, in Anuchina he had been robbed. There he met with some manufacturers and in its naive simplicity told him about what was Soboleva winter on the river Baku and sold profitably Sables. The industrialist invited him to go to the pub and drink wine. Dersu readily agreed. Feeling in the head hops, gold gave his new friend deposited all the money. The next day, when Dersu woke up, the industrialist was gone. Dersu could not seem to understand. The people of his tribe always gave each other on the storage of furs and money, and never gone.

In the afternoon, under the sunlight, we see only the Earth in the night we see the whole world. Like a brilliant light dust was scattered around the sky. From the quiet shining of the stars, it seemed, descended on the earth peace, and because in the nature everything was so solemn and quiet.

The beauty of life is in sharp contrast.

Rain in the forest - it double rain. Every Bush and every tree at the slightest concussion douse the traveler with water.

In the evening I recorded my observations, and Dersu roasted on a spit Sabatino. During dinner I dropped a piece of meat into the fire. Seeing this, Dersu quickly pulled it from the fire and threw it to the side.
- Why throw meat into the fire? he asked me acidly. - How can it burn in vain! Our tomorrow left here the other people go eat. Into the fire throw the meat, its so damn.
Who else comes here? - I asked him in turn.
- Like who? - he was surprised. - Go raccoon, badger or crow; crow no mouse go, the mouse no ant - go. In the taiga many kinds of people there.
It became clear to me: Dersu cared not only about humans but also about animals, even such small as an ant. He loved the forest with its inhabitants and otherwise cared about her.

"Settled there, where they sing; who sings that evil thinks" - I remembered the old Swiss proverb.