'Jules Verne was not the 'mad scientist' some thought him to be. In several of his novels he showed great concern for the dangers of technology/pollution caused by the oil industry/the imminent extinction of whales, and in his 1901 novel 'The Village in the Tree Tops' he exposed the slaughter of elephants for their ivory!'
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Everybody knows that the great reversed triangle of land, with its base in the north and its apex in the south, which is called India, embraces fourteen hundred thousand square miles, upon which is spread unequally a population of one hundred and eighty millions of souls.
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How tranquil is a coral tomb, and may the heavens grant that my companions and I be buried in no other!
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Anything one man can imagine, other men can make real.
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Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve.
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Scent is the soul of flowers, and sea flowers, as splendid as they may be, have no soul!
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