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Henno Martin Quotes

1910–1998 Germany

Henno Martin (10 March 1910 in Freiburg - 7 January 1998 in Göttingen) was a German professor of geology who, along with Hermann Korn, lived for two years in the Namib Desert to avoid internment during the Second World War.

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Cynicism is a sharp enough weapon in the hurly-burly of an overcrowded town; it gives you elbow-room and it also gives you a satisfactory feeling of superiority. But what's the use of elbow-room in a desert?

Sheltering Desert; Union Deutsche Verlangsgesellschaft Ulm (1958)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Henno Martin (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.