• "Bacon Hole...An important bone cave which has produced the remains of a variety of animals icluding Straight-tusked Elephant." Stratford, South Wales 74
• "Hain's papers on bone caves appeared in the Miscellanea of the Collegium Naturae Curiosum." Shaw, cave science 240

• "An opening or recess in the earth which cannot be described as a 'void' - a rock shelter of cliff-side overhang - is not a cave, but if its darker pockets contain mineral formations typical of a "true cave", or provide habitat for organisms which populate caves, it may be described as a 'borderline cave.'" Crane, Cave 10

• "The autumn trees, ravaged as they are, take on the flash of tattered flags kindling in the gloom of cool cathedral caves where gold letters on marbe pages describe death in battle and how bones bleech and burn far away in Indian sands." Woolfe, Virginia (1927): To the Lighthouse, London

• "Speleology is defined in the Oxford Dictionary as 'the scientific study of caves." Shaw, cave science 1
• "Fingal's Cave...The cave has been the subject of numerous historical vistitation." Oldham, Scotland 54
• "There are, so ar, no winter observations reported of this cave, yet it wuld seem to be one which would well repay the trouble." Balch, Glacières 8

• "Evidence shows that cave air can reduce the severity of asthma for many people, but s the benefit worth the negative effect of radon?" O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 99
• "In November 1842, Mammoth Cave owner Dr. John Croghan brougth 15 tubercolosis patients to the cave with the hope of curing the disease with the constant temperature and purity of the cave air."Garberi, Forti, USI IMPROPRI (?) 108 
• "Condensation corrosion occurs when cold air flows into caves and encounters the warmer wet cave air, or when hot wet air cools as it comes into contact with a cold surface." Ellis, Wombeyan 42

• "Even non-fiction books about cave animals other than bats are scarce." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 31
• "Cave animals have been subject of study since the middle of the nineteenth century in Europe and China, although the formal discipline of biospeleology has existed only since the middle of the nineteenth century." Engel, Microbes 22
• "On the other side of the argument Louis Agassiz (1851), a strong opponent of Lamarck and later of Darwin, used cave animals as evidence fo rthe special creation of species." Shaw, cave science 228

• "Interest in dark-zone cave archeology in the United States, which dates back to the late nineteenth century, accelerated in the latter half of the twentieth century with many significant discoveries." Crane, Cave 67
• "Despite Boyd Dawkin's primary interest in cave archeology, the book contains a significant amount on other branches of cave study including speleogenesis and the growth of speleothems." Shaw, cave science 245

• "The cappers' stand looked like general information booths for the whole cave area rather than for just a single cave or group of caves under one owner." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities  113
• "They supply written comments and oral testimony on wilderness plans and master plans for cave areas on government land." Tom Rea on 26

• "Cave art challenges the geological versus human binary opposition...cave art endures." Crane, Cave 108
  "cave owl" from grotte Chauvet, Ardèche, on a t-shirt, 2022
• "The first cave art to be recognised as prehistoric consisted of pieces of carved bone." Shaw, cave science 227

• "Exposure to cave atmospheres and thereby to alpha-radiation in the Transvaal occurs on three levels." Gamble, Alpha-radiation 258
• "Each day the water in the cave is pumped out, filtered and returned as mist to maintain humidity levels and the moist cave atmosphere." Crane, Cave 179

• "Today the cave church of San Giovanni d'Antro, which was completely restored in the fifteenth century, clings to a mountainside in the Julian Alps, partly constructed externally, and partly built into the cave." Crane, Cave 153
  

• "The cave cricket, an important member of the cave community." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 42
• "These species and their remnants can provide a source of food for cave communities." Ellis, Wombeyan 121 12

• "cave conservation: There are conservationsists and preservationsits." Tom Rea on, 26
• "We have published some handout brochures about caving courtesy and about cave conservation that emphasize the owners' rights and desires." Tom Rea on, 26
• "Cave conservation can be best summed up as "The best possible uns of our existing caves." Oldham, Scotland x

• "Trogloxenes, such as bats, wood rats, and cave crickets, leave the cave at night to eat at the surface smorgasbord of plants, fungi, prey, and carrion." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 32
• "Some of the organisms that live in caves and aquifer are able to move freely in and out of cave (e.g. trogloxenes, such as bats and cave crickets), whereas other organisms are more likely to be dependent on transport or translocation to move them into or throughout a cave." Engel, Microbes 22
• "Trogloxenes...Included in this group are bats that roost and breed in caves, as well as cave crickets." Ellis, Wombeyan

• "Cave deposits are a history book for the ice ages." Crane, Cave 36
• "From the 1900s-1940s, many cave deposits were considered to have a microbiological origin, even if researchers could not prove it until more recently, including cave nitrate (saltpeter or saltpetre) deposits, carbonate moonmilk, and other speleothems." Engel, Microbes 23
• "The guano piles are a major source of the element posphorous in cave deposits." Ellis, Wombeyan 65

• "In both scientific and non-scientific language, the lexicon of cave description is fundamentally dependent on the vocabulary of human life on the surface," Crane, Cave 10
• "Another way in which information about caves was promulgated was in the form of compilations of cave descriptions for particular regions." Shaw, cave science 245

• "However, we still are far from understanding cave development associated with flowing lava in all its facets." Kempe, Galapagos 144
• "In Wonder Cave we had an indication of the vast scale of cave development in Hidden Valley, but hard caving at 33° for 14 hours was no joke and the Hidden Valley camp was hard to supply, so logistics dictated that we concentrate our efforts in the more accessible caves borderung the Melinau flood plain." Brook, D., Waltham, A.C. (1979): The Underworld of Mulu, part 2, Caving International Magazine 2, p 5
• "Modern cave development attempts to leave much of the natural cave surfaces untouched, for example, by suspending walkways." Ellis, Wombeyan 41

• "David Gillieson, an expert in the conservation and management of caves and karst, suggests that the rule of human entry implies a minimum cave diameter of 0.3 m, while one character in Robert Penn Warren's novel THE CAVE (1959) jokes that 'a cave is no place for a fat man'." Crane, Cave 12

• "Sheck Exley - regarded by his peers as one of the greatest cave divers ever, and in 1994, the year of his death, the holder of the record for the deepet dive - summoned up the lure of cave diving in autobiography, Caverns Measureless to Man." Crane, Cave 89
• "In Cameron's film the curmudgeonly veteran cave diver Frank McGuire recites the poem to himself and later to his son in moments of awe or desperation." Crane, Cave 127
• "Tough luck for cavers, but a real bonanza for cave divers." Lewis, The Nullabor Plain 4

• "Learning to empathize with the life of this most iconic of cave-dwellers requires going 'down on your elbows and knees', for which 'You'll need a speleologist's desire for rebirth..." Crane, Cave 42
• "Troglobite..a permanent cave dweller." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 31
• "The paintings in the numerous Bhimbetka rock shelters in India's Madhya Pradesh state, ...depict scenes from the lives of the cave-dwellers,  as well as animals including bison." Crane, Cave 110

• "The cave entrance led via a squeeze through a bould ruckle into a narrow, vertical shaft forty-five feet deep, which was aptly name the Letter-box." Eyre, Cave Explorers 7
• "Either near the cave entrance or in its vicinity there was a stone earth oven called umu pae." Ciszewski, Easter Island 26
• "The absence of light and plants beyond cave entrances makes for just these few dining options." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 32
  Main entrance Mammoth Cave

• "They use the cave as suitable for clandestine activity, to be carried out not so much from eyes but above all from prying noses. in fact, the cave environment, thanks to the very high humidity level, breaks dowon any possible perfume deriving from the distilllation activity, thus making it impossible to identify the clandestine distillery." Garberi, Forti, USI Impropri (?) 100
• "The commercial history of Jenolan Caves dates back to the 1861 visit of the local politician John Lucas (who did much to ensure the preservation of the fragile cave environment, and after whom the Lucas Cave is namen.)". Crane, Cave 163
• "Apart from being an eyesore, various types of litter can poison the cave environment for the many microscopic animals who have made the cave their home." Oldham, Scotland x

• "The cave, especially Star Chamber, apparently impressed Emerson because ten years later he described his cave experience at the beginning of his essag "Illusions": But I then took notice, and still chiefly remember, that the best thing which the cave had to offer was an illusion." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities  200
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• "Lazaro Pakarati..He is regarded as a cave expert." Ciszewski, Easter Island 47
• "It is remarkable, for instance, how many of the specialist terms in a cave expert's glossary appeared between 1880 and 1920 - from words to describe surface karstic terrain (doline, karren) to names for solution formations (helictite, frostwork)." Crane, Cave 33

• "Cave exploration remains one of the last pursuits in the world wheere the participant can find breath-taking sights no one has seen before." Eyre, Cave Explorers VIII
• "In spite of prohibition the Spaniards began the cave exploration and went into two of the caves in Roiho und Poike regions." Ciszewski, Easter Island 53
• "Dawkins traces the history of European cave exploration to insist that by 1874 it was'impossible to shut our eyes to the continuity the exists between geology, archaeology,biology, and history - sciences which at first sight appear isolated from each other." Crane, Cave 31

• "In 2005 three horror films depicted cave explorers trapped underground and hunted by monstrous predators." Crane, Cave 13
• "Does it go? This is the question that hooks the cave explorer and drives his/her curiosity towards an answer." Crane, Cave 79
• "He wore a long black frock coat and black trousers, thin boots and a linen shirt, certainly not hte ideal outfit for a cave explorer." Balch, Glacières 3

• "Formal, coordinated networks of scientists and explorers who shared a passion for caves began to emerge in the 1880s with the establishment of cave-exploring societies, across Europe." Crame, Cave 32
• "The fact that some people turned to cave exploring in particular may have been a matter of chance in some cases, but cave work would tend to appeal particularly in those whose sense of curiosity was strongly developed." Shaw, cave science 246

• "But in cave fauna we find the process reversed: the complex forms are reverting to those that are more simple." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 108
• "However, there is still much to be learned about obligate cave fauna, nutrient cycling, and cave ecosystems dynamics." Engel, Microbes 22
• "The rare cave fauna need undisturbed environments for survival just as the speleothems need uncontaminated evironments to appear as they do." Ellis, Wombeyan 41

• "The five-inch-long northern cave fish lives in the generally calm waters of base-level rivers." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 32
• "Eigenmann..He had worked on the blind cave fish Amblyopsis spelaeus in the 1890s, and for several years after 1900 specimens were kept in tanks in his department." Shaw, cave science 242

• "There are many loose rocks and loose broken speleothems on the cave floor." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 16
• "Once past the pools, the cave floor fell away at a forty-five degree angle over smooth deposits of flowstone an deep gour pools, and the passage widened into a huge rift." Eyre, Cave Explorers 83
• "The cave floor beneath roosting colonies of bats is covered by deposits of their guano and urine, as well as discarded prey and bat carcasses." Ellis, Wombeyan 124

• "On the coast in the region of Mataveri o tai there are the best known and most frequented cave formations." Ciszewski, Easter Island 37
• Until the early decades of the twentieth century, geologists, archaeologists and other scientists who ventured underground did not share a specialized vocabulary with which to describe caves in rich detail, advance their theories about cave formation or classify the life forms they discovered in the damp and the dark." Crane, Cave 33
• "In Europe, taking powdered cave formations medicinally faded out in the 1700s." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities  96
  Carlsbad Caverns, New Mexico, USA

• "In addition to basic cave gear needed for any cave trip (boots, helmet, light, first aid pack), explorers need survey instruments." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 107

• "Working as a cave guide for twenty-plus years, I have encountered many of fascinating topics." O'Connor Olsen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 15
• "The cave guide is exposed to similar conditions for lengthy periods and usually has additional limited exposure to conditions more severe in terms of accessibility and inhalation." Gamble, Alpha-radiation 258
• "The first official cave guide is believed to have been Hans-Jürgen Becker, who conducted tours of Baumann's Cave in Germany from 1668, while trained cave guides were employed at the 
  Ojcow caves in Poland from around 1810." Crane, Cave 160

• "The cave habitat is divided into three major zones based on light intensity, entrance, twilight, and dark zone." Engel, Microbes 22
• "However, Smith also provided important first-hand observations of invertebrate communities associated with different cave habitats." Ellis, Wombeyan 121

• Dawkins presents the 'cave-hunter' as a figure of an advanced intellectual age in which scientists could work unhindered by pagan superstitions or religious dogma." Crane, Cave 31

• "Dawkins describes a 'new science of cave-hunting' comprised of two integrated divisions of study - the physical and the biological." Crane, Cave 29

• "Karst is the root word in a whole suite of specialist terms in cave hydrology and geology, from pseudokarst for landscapes analogous to karst but formed by non-dissolutional processes, to epikarst for the highly porous uppermost zone of soluble rock, and paleokarst for ancient kast features dating from an earlier period of karstification." Crane, Cave 27

• "Such employement of cave imaginery to cue emotional and intellectual responses is one aspect of the 'complex negations of nature and culture', which reveals that the long history of human engagement with the natural world has shaped our view of ourselves." Crane, Cave 15

• "It appears that Englert explored the cave interior." Ciszewski, Easter Island 31

• "Horace Hovey...his books include descriptions of the tour routes and cave landmarks populaar with other early writers, but he covered thd cave mor thoruoughly than most writers." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 197

• "Less suited for long-term cave life than cave crickets, camel crickets go outside to eat every two or three days, so they live near damp entrances." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 44
• "Do not dump carbide in or outside of a cave. This can seriously upset cave life as well as being unsightly." Stratford, South Wales 7

• "The visual imagery of a cave-like space heightens our emotional identification with Clarice, and symbolizes the dark recesses of the mind of the madman who hunts her." Crame, Cave 15
• "Troglophile - an animal that may live its entire life in a cave but can also live above ground or in a cavelike habitat. The term literally means "cave lover." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities31
• "Unroofed caves are identified by their cave-like shape and by the presence of cave deposits such as flowstone or stalagmites." Ellis, Wombeyan 62

• "While the impossibility of capturing the earth's reality in words is not peculiar to the spaces beneath its surface, cave literature frequently reveals a heightened awareness of the limits of language in relation to natural phenomena." Crane, Cave 11
• "Some twenty years later another of the classics of cave literature appeared, a book in two volumes by Rosenmüller and Tilesius." Shaw, cave science 245

• "After caving itself, the activity that most brings together dedicated cave explorers und cave scientists is the production of cave maps." Crane, Cave 37
• "In 1845, he drew a map of the cave mostly from memory and from his knowledge of older cave maps he was able to view while staying at Locust Grove." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 103
• "The shape of cave maps and plans gives us some indication of how they formed." Ellis, Wombeyan 66

• "Were the Native Americans at Mammoth Cave "cavemen"?" O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 72
• "Emerging from the cave, I was once more in the sunlit world of twentieth-century France, back again with my own brand of primitive cavemen as we moved on the lush, wooded foothills of the Pyrénées." Eyre, Cave Explorers 73
• "I had been visited by a reporter from the Daily Express who had me loading and unloading my Ford van serveral times and then published a photograph, and half a column on my wife Rose, with headlines that read Nymphomaniac cooks for forty cavemen -or something like that." Eyre, Cave Explorers 123

• "The powerful association of light with knowledge (and darkness with ignorance) also underpins the use of cave metaphors in theories of dreams and the unconcious, most famously by Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung." Crane, Cave 16

• "Some people today still believe that caves and cave minerals have the power to heal." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities  96
• "Bat and bird guano is the source for many of the less auspicious cave minerals." Ellis, Wombeyan 52

• "The black opening of the cave mouth stood out starkly against the snow and surrounding limestone." Eyre, Cave Explorers 74
• "'What is the strange instinct, impelling us to explore, which the sight of a cave mouth arouses?'" Crane, Cave 66
• "The river disappeared in rapids into a cave mouth 15 metres high by 15 metres wide." Montgomery, Atea Expeditions 8

• "Yet exploration by 200 British potholers over a 40-year-period culminated in 2011 in the connection of more than 102 km of passages that stretch under Cumbria, Lancashire and Yorkshire, making the Three Counties System the longst cave network in Britain." Crane, Cave
  
• "In China's Chongquing province, a cave network explored in 2013 was found to possess its own weather system: ladders of stacked mist that build in a huge central hall, cold fog that drifts in giant cloud chambers for from the reach of the sun." McFarlane, Underland 11

• "Cave openings are gaping 'mouths' into the dark 'gullets' of the earth." Crane, Caves 11
• "A short trip into the entrance of a cave, when ridge walking, to determine if it goes and what kind of trip may be needed in the future, may save everyone in the group considerable time when a number of new potential cave openings are found." Wilson, Solo Cave Myth 21

• "This historic fiction mixed with fantasy features historic cave guides Stephen Bishop and Mat and Nick Bransford, cave owner Dr. John Croghan, P.T. Barnum, and former vice president Aaron Burr." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 181
• "We've made some half-hearted attempts (to have a cave owner's education programme)." Tom Rea on, 26
• "The Greatest Natural Curiosity in America and an ideal summer resort, with the Cave Hotel able to accomodate up to 500 guests, who could avial themselves of the tours conducted by slaves of the cave owners." Crane, Cave 162

• "Numerous petroglyphs and cave paintings seen everywhere are the expression of the ancient rapanui culture." Ciszewski, Easter Island 41
• "In Central America Mayan cave paintings have been found in Yucatan, Mexico, and in the Caribbean a significant concentration of cave art from the last two millenia can be found in Cuba and in the Dominican Republic." Crane, Cave 111

• "The carbon dioxide-rich air in Kacna jama, Slovenia, is caused by the seepage underground of waste from a paper mill - a reminder that even the remotest cave passages are parts of intetrated natural systems which link the earth's surface and its depths.2 Crane, Cave 22
• "However, such is the way of cavers, that it was eighteen years before full documentation was complete and even as it left the printers, it was out of date, because even more cave passages had been discovered." Eyre, Cave Explorers 35
• "Cave passages are just space." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 7
  

• "Below the Temple Cave is the Dark Cave, the largest of the Batu Caves, a 2-km network of caverns containing elaborate formations such as cave curtains, flow stones, cave pearls and scallops; it, too, is open to the public." Crane, Cave 156
• "Cave pearls are also best preserved in the wild caves as they occur in small water filled hollows frequently found on the floor, that area of the cave most vulnerable to destruction by visitors." Ellis, Wombeyan 52
• "Buckland..According to his manuscript notes for these lectures he discussed speleothems (including mondmilch, cave pearls, flos ferri and aragonite) and cave bone deposits." Shaw, cave science 242

• "By the end of the century, ten speleological societies were active in Europe; the most important of these for the future of serious cave research was Martel's Societe de Speleologie, establisched in Paris in 1895." Crane, Cave 32
• "The influence of universities in cave research has increased over the years until today it is quit significant." Shaw, cave science 241

• "In the difficult task of cave rescue, where the injured must be moved through the harshest of terrains, his contributions have been outstanding." Eyre, Cave Explorers VII
• "The difficuly of cave rescue as distinct from mountain rescue or other forma of wilderness rescue was recognized with the formation of the Cave Rescue Organisation in Yorkshire in 1935 (the world's first cave rescue organisation) and the Mendip Rescue Organisation (renamed Mendip Cave Rescue in 2008) in Somerset the following year." Crane, Cave 83
• "In the event of an accident requiring the necessity to call for cave rescue the following procedure should be followed..." Stratford, South Wales 7

• "The difficuly of cave rescue as distinct from mountain rescue or other forma of wilderness rescue was recognized with the formation of the Cave Rescue Organisation in Yorkshire in 1935 (the world's first cave rescue organisation) and the Mendip Rescue Organisation (renamed Mendip Cave Rescue in 2008) in Somerset the following year." Crane, Cave 83
• "More than 50 presentations concerning cave-rescue equipment, problems, methodology, first aid, rescue training, accident origin statistics and cave rescue organisations were given." Hegedüs, cave rescue in Hungary 56

• "After wading through the stream for around 56 m, Casteret found himself in a 'disaging spot' where the cave roof disappeared below the water, and where the celebrated cave scientist René Gabriel Jeannel had previously been forced to stop." Crane, Cave 86
• "Thus, the cave belongs to the "infationary" pyroducts, i.e., the cave roof formed first and the lava kept flowing underneath invisible to any surface observer (had there been one)." Kempe, Galapagos 157
• "Hazards change from snow blindness to blizzards in a matter of minutes, and there is risk of falling through thin portions of the cave roof into one of the streams." Halliday, Glaciospeleology 32

Violet entrance, Mammoth Cave

• "In the cave scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark, the cave is crawing with tarantulas- that's how som earachnophobic people imagine caves." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 48
• "In this crucial, disturbing cave scene Ondaatje intersects the multiple images of the womb and the tomb that are so frequently associated with caves in literature." Crane, Cave 135
• "Trickett is shown with theodolite, though the photo of him was actually taken in a studio and superimposed on the cave scene (Middleton, 19991:105)." Shaw, cave science 61

• The desire to forge new frontiers became mingled with a desire to trace our evolutionsary roots....Clearly this period was pivotal in the history of cave science, but the story of speleology's rapid growth is even today still only in its early chapters." Crane, Cave 34
• "The future of cave and karst microbiology research, and potentiallly most of the cave sciences, will improve by connecting phylogeny to function and by utilizing a combination of culture-, genomics-, and protocomics-based analyses." Engel, Microbes 23
• "There is a marked increase in the use of geological language in Auden's poem compared to Coleridge's, which is in keeping with the development of cave science between 1797, when Coleridge composed 'Kublan Khan', and 1948, when Auden wrote his poem." Crane, Cave 131

• "Cave scientists distinguish between the geomorphology of 'true karst' - formed principally through the solution of rock by water - and 'pseudokarst' - in which caves and associated landforms develop through processes other than solution, from the weathering of rock by wind and rain or the erosive effects of turbulent melt water, to the flow of lava or the fracturing of rock by tectonic movements." Crane, Cave 23
• Many cavers and cave scientists consider Frenchman Eduard Alfred Martel to be the father of modern speleology." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 104

• "Gaping Ghyll, at 109,7 m, is the deepest cave shaft in Britain." "While traces of prehistoric journeys into cave depths can only tell us partial stories, the distinctive experience of 'being-in-a-cave' suggests that Stone Age cave visitors had something in common with today's explorers." Crane, Cave 70
  
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• "In Thailand alone it is estimated that over 200 caves are regularly used as places of Buddhist worship, including the impressive Tham Khao Luang, which, like many other cave shrines in Thailand, is now also a firm fixture on the tourist trail." Crane, Cave 157
  

• "Other notable archaeological cave sites in Australia are found in the karst areas in the inland southwestern part of Tasmania." Crane, Cave 113

• "Tiny aquatic isopods live in cave streams." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 38
• "Because microbes colonize virtually every surface and interface with all zones of a cave system including in cave streams with dynamic geochemical interfaces, understanding microbial diversity and function is central to all of the karst-related sciences." Engel, Microbes 23
• "Below is a cave stream that leads to the wild section of Junction Cave and the spacious and beautifully decorated Olympian Cavern." Ellis, Wombeyan 49

• "These cavers, for the most part, are or have been involved in one or more extensive cave study, research, exploration or other cave related project." Wilson, Solo Cave Myth 21
• "It was during the second half of the 19th century that a conscious effort was made to bring the various branches of cave study together, both in research and and in publication." Shaw, cave science 2
• "The earliest word used for this purpose in any language was Höhlenkunde, meaning cave study." Shaw, cave science 2

• "However, some of the cave surveys have been included with the descriptions." Ellis, Wombeyan 167
• "Two windows in p43, at a depth of 220-250 m, were shown on the cave survey made during the period, but remained unexplored." Klimchouk, Kubera 26
• "The first published cave survey of a natural cave, that of Pen Park Hole, in 1683." Shaw, cave science 240

• "The ancient cave system revealed where an underground river hat cut through the limestone, leaving seven different levels high and dry and covered with beautiful calcite draperies." Eyre, Cave Explorers 33
• "The active speleologist and research scientist are probably the most severely exposed visitors to cave systems though visits are usually of less duration than guides." Gamble, Alpha-radiation 258
• "Mount Rainier....Winter trips haave never regained their proper role in the study of this cave system." Halliday, Glaciospeleology 32

• "Religious monuments and shrines have been cut out of cliffs, rock shelters have been expanded inot cave temples; and churches have been built in the cathedral-like chambers of larger cave entrances." Crane, Cave 148
• "The Romans constructed cave temples dedicated to the underground god Mithras." McFarlane, Underland 184

• "Aggtelek National Park in Hungary offers not only recreational cave tours for tourists but also speleotherapy for children with asthma in Beke Cave, which was declared a medicinal cave in 1965." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities  98
• "....Wookey Hole theme park, where again the cave tour is only one of the several activities on offer, and visitors wishing to see Gough's Cave or Cox's Cave must by a Cheddar Gorge and Caves Explorer ticket, which also includes entry to the Crystal Quest fantasy adventure, the Cheddar Man Museum..." Crane, Cave 172

• "Cave tourism dates back to the beginning of the sixteenth century when people began to visit the spectacular Postojnska jama in Slovenia on a regular basis." Crane, Cave 160

• "Postojna jama...The most significant development, however, took place in 1872 when rails were laid and the first cave train, originally pushed by the guides, began to carry tourists." Crane, Cave 161
  

• "Thrill-seeking visitors can choose from a wide range of subterranean adventure tours that offer activities such as cave tubing (blackwater rafting), abseiling, climbing, underground flying foxes ..." Crane, Cave 186
  

• "On tours, cave visitors may see marine-fossils such as coral and crinoids that became fossilized as the limestone formed under the sea, but the cave also holds treasures that few people see." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 21
• "While traces of prehistoric journeys into cave depths can only tell us partial stories, the distinctive experience of 'being-in-a-cave' suggests that Stone Age cave visitors had something in common with today's explorers." Crane, Cave 69

• "A large fire burns behind the prisoners and a procession of men carrying stone figures passes above them, casting shadows as in a puppet show onto the cave wall." Crane, Cave 16
• "It is possible to establish how many times Wombeyan Creek flowed through this chamber, but cemented river gravels and red clay can be seen perched at numerous levels on the cavern wall. Ellis, Wombeyan 49

• "There are no clear divisions between the three cave 'zones' - or indeed between the cave and the surface environment - expecially in metereological and ecological terms." Crane, Cave 22
• "In all cases, sites were selected to show the transition from entrance to deep cave zones, and variations from constricted passages in large chambers as appropriate to individual caves." Gamble, Alpha-radiation 257
• "Consequently, the genetic diversity of cave and karst microbial communities may be particularly important to characterize and understand microbial species and ecotype concepts because of the global distribution of caves having similar hysico-chemical constraints from cave zone to cave zone, and frm cave to cave in different regions." Engel, Microbes 23

• "A caver can see only a small section of passage at any one time." Crane, Cave 38
• "However, such is the way of cavers, that it was eighteen years before full documentation was complete and even as it left the printers, it was out of date, because even more cave passages had been discovered." Eyre, Cave Explorers 35
• "Battered gypsum crust und stone worn from beating on other rocks indicate prehistoric cavers were mining gypsum from the walls." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 73

• "You once raised me from the depths of despair to an elevation of happiness that was high as the highest pinnacle of the caverns of Kentucky; raising me from the depts of Chimborazo." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 185
• "Groups of speleothems gather in alcoves on the walls and in numerous places around this cavern." Ellis, Wombeyan 49

• "In 1953 C.H.D. Cullingford, an early British authority on caving, described speleology as 'an infant science'." Crane, Cave 34
• "This was a new dimension to caving, and we achieved our first success in Easegill as we tackled a boisterous waterfall at the end of a major inlet that rejoiced in the name of Green and Smelly, a name given by the underground team during the original exploration." Eyre, Cave Explorers 36
• "I personally don't recommend rum for caving!" O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 104

• Jim Eyre has long been a legend in British caving circles, and had top cavers, like climbers, become household names would have been widely known." Eyre, Cave Explorers VII

• "The Cambrian Caving Council is an association of caving clubs and organisations." Stratford, South Wales 6
• "At present, there are caving clubs only in Kenya, South Africa and South West Africa." Striniati, Caving in Africa 27
• "In 1972 the British Speleological Expedition to Ethiopia, which drew on members of various caving clubs including two from the Preston Cave Club, surveyed the full length of the system (Sof Omar), which at 15.1 km is the longst in Ethiopia." Crane, Cave 150

• "This may have provided some of the incentive to start solo caving, as caving companions may not have been available when needed." Wilson, Solo Cave Myth 21
• "We had professors, a peer, diplomats, a film crew, Generals, Ph.D.'s from a dozen disciplines and even the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, as caving companions." Frankland, Los Tayos 11

• "For some, caving is basically common sense, but for most people the best way to learn is with experienced cavers under actual caving conditions." Stratford, South Wales 5
• "..a solo trip to the Salle Verna via the Lepineux pits. Such a trip, using ropes and ladders, would place me under the most difficult caving conditions." Courbon, PSM 22

• "He wrote books on speleology and developed caving equipment and techniques tht made previously inaccessible caves accessible." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 104
• "In late July I arrived at Buxton where I had my van loaded with caving equipment, and much to my astonishment, boxes and boxes of toffees and chocolate." Eyre, Cave Explorers 124

• "I was completely fascinated with the mystery and excitement of this, my first caving experience." Eyre, Cave Explorers 3
• "People with no caving experience who are interested in joining CRF can join a caving organization such as the National Speleological Society to get some experience before moving on to some challenging caving with CRF at Mammoth." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 105
• "However, we made many firm friends and the huge river caves of Slovenia have since given me some fine caving experiences." Eyr, Cave Explorers 101

• "Edmund J. Mason....It was a challenge and an adventure and I appreciated the companionship of the caving fraternity..but there is a good deal more in caving than mere adventure." Crane, Cave 66
• "It might be said that the six lads who were missing constituted the cream of the caving fraternity of that time." Eyre, Cave Explorers 193

• "Along with members of the British Speleologicla Association and other fledgling caving groups we discover many miles of passages in thix complex cave, narrowly avoid being drowned in a flood." Eyre, Cave Explorers 29

• His contributions to caving literature are highly amusing and have been avidly read." Eyre, Cave Explorers VIII
• "He later recalled the service, in what has become among the most celebrated passages of caving literature for its convergence of theology and geology..." McFarlane, Underland 195

• "People with no caving experience who are interested in joining CRF can join a caving organization such as the National Speleological Society to get some experience before moving on to some challenging caving with CRF at Mammoth." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 105
• "It may be that the methods of sample selection biased the results in favour of more experienced, well-known older cavers who are affiliated with caving organisations." Wilson, Solo Cave Myth 21

• "The BSA and the immediate post-war British caving scene was dominated by Eli Simpson, a fine old caver." Eyre, Cave Explorers 29
• "We were sad that we could not bring a team back home, teach them a technique or two and inject a new breed of hard men into the Britisch caving scene." Frankland, Los Tayos 13

• "For my sources of information I have leaned heavily on the publications of two of the leading caving societies of Scotland - The Grampian Speleological Group and the Glasgow Speleological Society." Oldham, Scotland iii
• "Since the release of the book there has been a handful of dedicated cavers continuing the exploration of the karst on a consistent basis, although many other caving societies have made significant contributions." Ellis, Wombeyan 167

• "In 2012 a 200-strong European caving team led by Rémy Limagne attempted to explore and map the far reaches of this vast system, now ranked the 28th deepest cave in the world." Crane, Cave 78
• "When the original caving team reached Borneo via the kind services of the RAF, the expedition base camp at Long Pala was reached by a 290 kilometre journey up the Baram, Tutoh and Melinau Rivers from the town of Miri." Brook, Waltham, Mulu part 1, 3
• "The caving team carried on investigating other openings in the sheer walls of the valley." Brook, D., Waltham, A.C. (1979): The Underworld of Mulu, part 2, Caving International Magazine 2, p 3

• "Need and experiment led to new caving techniques and advances in equipment." Crane, Cave 78
• "I should mention that a preliminary cleaning of the ledges and the use of modern caving techniques which prevent the rope from causing rockfalls considerably limits the danger." Courbon, PSM 22

• "However, apart from this incident, we had an enjoyable caving trip, and Saturday evening saw us, slightly bedraggled with mud behind our ears, heading for the back room of the Eagle where the local cavers congregated of a Saturday evening." Eyre, Cave Explorers 122
• "A large swath was cut in the forest above the sink and a base camp established which, with hot showers, electric lights, log bunkrooms and a helipad, must equal anything ever seen on a caving trip." Montgomery, Atea Expeditions 9

• "The occasional tourist visiting a commercial cave." Gamble, Alpha-radiation 258
• "In the pages that follow, the commercial caves at Wombeyan will be described and their special features elaborated on." Ellis, Wombeyan 41

• "We rediscovered flakefall as a special hazard of glacier caves." Halliday, Glaciospeleology 32
• "This is perhaps the glacier cave in Switzerland which is easiest to visit, and my inspection intensivfied my belief in what I consider the correct explanation of some of the pnehomena in glacières." Balch,Glacières 70

• "It was against this impressive background that we shouldered our packs and began the long climb up the mountain in search of Casteret's famous ice caves, and the higher we climbed, the more impressive became the scenery." Eyre, Cave Explorers 74
• "In Mary Shelley's Frankenstein the tortured monster finds refuge in ice caves remote from human habitation." Crane, Cave 125
• "A few scratches with the axe - the most invaluable fried in an ice cave - were necessary at one place to improve our footing." Balch, Glacières 22

• "Tinted Cave is a complex in-and-out cave, being the remnant of old routes of Mares Forest Creek." Ellis, Wombeyan 51
  

• "Since then, the number of caves and the kilometers surveyed my members of thee Hawaiian Speleological Survey and other organizations has been multiplied by a factor probably close to 100; illustrating the outstanding role of the Hawaiian volcanism in the understand of the underlying processes responsible for lave cave genesis." Kempe, Galapagos 144
• "The lava caves are found mostly in Cameroon and Kenya." Striniati, Caving in Africa 27

• "The cave seemed to present much the same challenges and rewards as limestone caves - and its glistening." Halliday, Glaciospeleology 32
• "The second tradition, called Karake after the cave where it was first seen, is characterized by deeply engraved and weathered circles, and has been found only in limestone caves in the Mount Gambier region." Crane, Cave 113
• "Visiting limestone caves gives us a unique opportunity to see rocks and landscaped from the outside on the surface and from the inside as we travel through the caves." Ellis, Wombeyan 55

• "Each section contains an area map, descriptions of the main caves and a list of lesser caves and sites of speleological interest." Stratford, South Wales 8
• "Batu Caves...The main cave, known as Cathedral Cave or Temple Cave, is reached by climbing a steep flight of 272 steps and running a hazardous gauntlet of macaque monkeys." Crane, Cave 156
• "The plans of the main caves at Wombeyan include both elements: network patterns following the major joints in the marble and straighter stream passages." Ellis, Wombeyan 66

• "In the sixth century CE the Buddhist Bodhidharma spent nine years in deep meditation in a mountain cave near Shao Lin Temple in Le-yang, China." Crane, Cave 149
• "This has taken place in mountain caves situated at a high altitude at times when the air outside has dropped below freezing point during the night."  Balch,Glacières 140

• "It is contrasted with the infinite, 'savage' beauty of the natural caves, the 'caverns measureless to man' and the 'caves of ice'." Crane, Cave 129
• "In the second part of the chapter he deliberates more on the natural caves that are those that the 'divine wisdom' installed in the interior of earth for the natural necessities." Kempe, Kircher 61
• "The accidental discovery of natural caves when they were intersected by mine workings has already been mentioned." Shaw, cave science 59

• "The non-caver who reads this book will gain some insight into the fascination of a sport that provides an apt challenge for the adventurous young." Eyre, Cave Explorers VIII
• "But for non-cavers, the idea of going underground stimulates horror as often as ist inspires exploration und adventure, not least because of the powerful association of caves with tombs." Crane, Cave 13
• "It's difficult to educate non-cavers and the general public if you don't want to expose themto caving." Tom Rea on, 26

• "The Friedrichsteiner Eishöhle is a large pit cave, well lighted by daylight." Balch,Glacières 52
• "Pit caves are those where a pit or pits open into the ground, and the ice is found at the bottom." Balch,Glacières 119

• "Perhaps most importantly, a hole or fissure in rock so small to admit a human body is not a cave; in caver parlance it does not 'go', but for scientists it may turn out to be a 'protocave' if hydrological or geological processes widen the cave to allow human entry." Crane, Cave 10

• "The river caves of hrusica were not to be ours on this trip." Eyre, Cave Explorers 100
• "Llygad Llwchwr...A fine river cave with a large series of upper level dry passages." Stratford, South Wales 82
• "The nearest river cave from the base camp was Cave of the Winds, which could be entered by boat, for it was right on the bank of the Melinau River." Brook, Waltham, Mulu part 1, 5

• "As for the sandstone caves, they are found primarily in West Africa and around Capetown." Striniati, Caving in Africa 27
• "In 1838 Lieutenant George Grey, afterwards governor of South Australia, visited two separate sandstone caves in the vicinity of the Glenelg River in north-west Australia." Shaw, cave science 60

• "The second grroup contains sea-caves, caves formed by the erosion of water and tectonic caves." Kempe, Galapagos 46
• "Meanwhile, some sea caves have been turned into shelters of boats, while those in remote mountainous areas were used as hiding places by bandits and outlaws." Garberi, Forti, USI IMPROPRI (?) 104
• "A sea cave is also the subject of Sir Edward John Poynter's The Cave of the Storm Nymps, first exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1903." Crane, Cave 117

• "Did he dream of the possibility of turning Lancaster Hole into a show cave?" Eyre, Cave Explorers 30
• "In tourist caves or 'show caves', artificial light and paved pathways conceal the subtle transition between the entrance zone and the darker zone where sunlight still penetrates." Crane, Cave 20
• Elisa Kagan from the Institute of Earth Sciences at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem interviewed two employees of Soreq Cave, a show cave in Israel, who were in the cave during a 5.1-magnitude earthquake on February 11, 2004." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 16

• "It is possible that some of the network-shaped caves at Wombeyan formed uder artesian conditions when the marble was covered either by the volcanics or by the sandstone, with stream caves forming later when the marble was direktly exposed at the surface." Ellis, Wombeyan 66
• "On 6 December of the same year he paid a visit to the stream cave now called Yunde-lup at Yanchep in the north of Perth, and he recorded other West Australian caves in 1839." Shaw, cave science 60

• "In the same year (2004) the Ukrainian Alexander klimchouk looked towards Krubera, 'a freezing nightmare of a supercave in the Republic of Georgia'." Crane, Cave 83
• "Tabor coined the term 'supercave' - which he also uses in his adventure novel The Deep Zone (2012) - to name the biggest, deepest caves on earth." Crane, Cave 82

• Jim Eyre has long been a legend in British caving circles, and had top cavers, like climbers, become household names would have been widely known." Eyre, Cave Explorers VII

• "In tourist caves or 'show caves', artificial light and paved pathways conceal the subtle transition between the entrance zone and the darker zone where sunlight still penetrates." Crane, Cave 20
• "The great tourist caves of the United States, through the National Parks Service, have heen the sites of considerable management policy and techniques research." Gamble, Alpha-Radiation 254
• "Important artists therefore have tried their hand for the creation of billboards to advertis this or that tourist cave." Garberi, Forti, USI IMPROPRI (?) 109

• "The underwater cave entrances turned out to be the most interesting thing." Ciszewski, Easter Island 38
• "Milowka spoke of the excitement of working alongside the scientists in the Bahamas, collecting the samples they needed from deep inside underwater caves." Crane, Cave 88

• "Bill Cuddington, known affectionately as 'Vertical Bill', is widely regarded as the fathere of vertical caving in the United States." Crane, Cave 81
• "Australasian vertical caving had its birth in the challenging systems of Tasmania and the South Island of New Zealand." Montgomery, Atea Expeditions 7

• "Extra attention has been focused in the literature on the easily accessible caves with tourist values." Ciszewski, Easter Island 38
• "All the accessible caves were short with no sign of the elusive river, but one satisfying touch was the exploration of a cave that Andy had noticed on the air photos." Brook, D., Waltham, A.C. (1979): The Underworld of Mulu, part 2, Caving International Magazine 2, p 3

• "In Italy, mushroom growing was born in 1913, inside artificial caves near Vicenza." Garberi, Forti, USI IMPROPRI (?)  112
• "He derived it from the Greek word "speleon" but it was less correct, for "speleon" benoted only artificial caves." Shaw, cave science 2

• "He went on to probe into whatever war worth doing in the big caves of Europe." Eyre, Cave Exlorers VII
• "This was in a great pit, at the bottom of which, on one side, was a big cave." Balch, Glacières 3

• "It is apparent that under these conditions...there may be some danger in prolonged exposure is experienced in certain caves, particularly as there is some likelihood that concentrations would be higher in summer." Gamble, Alpha-radiation  258
• "..and there are topographers who make drawings or surveys to know exactly how many metres long and deep a certain cave is (me!)." Courbon, PSM 23
• "For although there are many caves where the air seems stagnant at times, and there are no distinct perceptible draughts, still that the air is really stagnant all summer appears to me doubtful, and it seems as if the movements of air were distinctly apparent only in certain caves and not in others." Balch,Glacières 123

• "Finally, nowadays even some cold caves are used, especially in Eastern Europe for "speleotherapy" purposes." Garberi, Forti, USI IMPROPRI (?) 107
• "There are but few data from reliable observers about such cold caves." Balch,Glacières 118

• "Along with members of the British Speleologicla Association and other fledgling caving groups we discover many miles of passages in thix complex cave, narrowly avoid being drowned in a flood." Eyre, Cave Explorers 29
• "Sigma Cave is a complex cave, consisting of old cave passages and a more recent streamway." Ellis, Wombeyan  70

• "Send out rippling octaves
  into the fossils of dank caves....." Crane, Cave 43 / poem by Judith Beveridge
• "In Roman mythology Somnus, the god of sleep, resides in a dark cave that the sun never penetrates, its entrance curtained by poppies und other hypnotic plants." Crane, Cave 91

• "A little work gained access to over half a mile of beautifully decorated cave that formed a circular network of passages before converging beyond a large broken chamber from which the stream flowed away down an impenetrable flat-out crawl." Eyre, Cave Explorers 33
• "Ha Long Bay, in north-eastern Vietnam...is known for its emerald waters and thousands of limestone islands...inside which there are hundreds of often highly decorated caves." Garberi, Forti, USI IMPROPRI (?) 112
• "Lesser Garth Cave...An interesting and well decorated cave which is used by the local kids but very rarely visited by cavers." Stratford, South Wales 10

• "It is a few metres deep cave under an arched vault open to the west." Ciszewski, Easter Island 47
• "In the South African Grootslang, a legendary serpent-like creature, dwells in a deep cave in the mountainous Richterveld." Crane, Cave 103
• "Despite a virtually unproven potential for deep caves New Guinea is becoming a prime target for vertical cavers around the world." Montgomery, Atea Expeditions 7

• "In 2012 a 200-strong European caving team led by Rémy Limagne attempted to explore and map the far reaches of this vast system, now ranked the 28th deepest cave in the world." Crane, Cave 78
• "Ogof Ffynnon dhu is the longest and deepest cave in Britain and also rates among the longest caves in the world." Stratford, South Wales 63
• "We plan a trip to find the world's deepest cave in the Cantabrian Mountains of Northern Spain." Eyre, Cave Explorers 121

• "They were hoping to find a route between a newly discovered cave, Dumb Luck, an dthe known upper passages of Great X; success would mean a new American depth record." Crane, Cave 81
• "Ogof Craig-A-Ffynnon...A recently discovered cave of great interest." Stratford, South Wales 20

• "Finally, in a multi-level system passages will be abandoned and will collapse, leading to a final state of no connected, enterable caves at a particular level." Crane, Cave 40
• "Nothing was found - the dolines, several hundred metres across, were collapse features containing little or no enterable caves." Montgomery, Atea Expeditions 8

• "Martel explored America's most famous cave - that's Mammoth - and made profile maps of it in 1912." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 104
• "The most famous caves in Western mythology must be those found in Homer's epic poem the Odyssey, said to date from the eighth century BCE, which records the adventures of Odysseus as he makes his way home to Ithaca after the battle of Troy." Crane, Cave 96
• "Fingal's Cave is Scotland's most famous cave." Oldham, Scotland 54
  

• "Few caves were found by sheer coincidence." Ciszewski, Easter Island 29
• "Mammoth was most likely his inspiration because few caves were open to the public in 1843." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 185

• "Few yards further there is a great cave with a sculptured rok at its entrance." Ciszewski, Easter Island 32
• "Krubera, the great cave in Georgia, is 7,000 vertical feet deep." Crane, Cave 83
• "St. Kilda...For example Barrington records they rowed round and under the cliffs of Hirta, the great Atlantic swell making a white fringe along the rocks and booming in the great caves." Oldham, Scotland 121

• "Such immense caves exist in various parts of the world, natural crypts dating from the geological epoch of the globe." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 188
• "Macocha...It is 138 meters deep and was created the collapse of an immese cave." Garberi, Forti, USI IMPROPRI (?) 104

• "But in speleological discourse, this limited view gradually gave way in the middle and later decades of the twentieh century to a more holistic view of caves as fragments of larger systems: 'individual caves' were reconceived 'as simple puzzle pieces of a larger master drainage system.'" Crane, Cave 39
• "Using this criteria we have assigned relative maturity levens to the individual caves with the Tunel del Estero being the least developed and the Cueva del Cascajo as the most developed." Kempe, Galapagos 160
• "In all cases, sites were selected to show the transition from entrance to deep cave zones, and variations from constricted passages in large chambers as appropriate to individual caves." Gamble, Alpha-radiation 257
• "Individual caves vary daily." Gamble, Alpha-radiation 258

• "The most interesting caves for us are the ones turned into mass or family burial mounds." Ciszewski, Easter Island 40
• "Slambri Ddu...An interesting cave consisting mainly of a huge chamber lying just below the surface of the moor." Stratford, South Wales 22

• "For example, in the crater of the Rano Aroi volcano there is not very large cave that was a temporary shelter." Ciszewski, Easter Island 24
• "A large cave might thus contain dry passages dating to the Pleistocene period and still active stream passages." Crane, Cave 38
• "There was one exception, the hole of Fayoun, which presented us with a beautiful entrance shaft of two hundred seventy feet, leading into a large cave covered in crystal deposits." Eyre, Cave Explorers 82

• "False flowglove was also common torch material in Mammoth and other local caves." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 64
• "Towards the end of the 19th century geological students at Indiana University used to be taken to a local cave as part of their course and a photograph survives showing a class visit in 1889 or 1890." Shaw, cave science 242

• "However they did not reach the end of one of the longest  caves and stopped at 350 m." Ciszewski, Easter Island 53
• "Agen Allwedd is one of the longst caves in Britain." Stratford, South Wales 24

• "This passage gives access to the upper part of the lower cave at station." Kempe, Galapagos 156
• "The route to the lower cave is blocked by tipped debris but entry can easily be obtained from the resurgence about 30 feet down the sea cliff." Oldham, Scotland 22
• "Then the ice sloped away again to the lower cave." Balch, Glacières 28

• "Many caves have their own names associated with the names of the original owners or clans." Ciszewski, Easter Island 25
• "In many caves, however, the danger is not so obvious, but the holes still pack a lethal punch if they are underestimated." Eyre., Cave Explorers 58
• "Of the many caves that feature in this major early work of Western literature, the caves of the Cyclops Polyphemus, the monstrous Scylla and the enchanting Calypso are the best known." Crane, Cave 96

• "Natural caves are so abundant on the coast as well as in the island's interior." Ciszewski, Easter Island 28
• "The Paradise Ice Cave of Mount Rainier were similarly visited and immortalized at least as early as 1980. These were natural caves." Halliday, Glaciospeleology 31
• "Like many other natural caves in Southeast Asia, the cavity had been transformed into a Buddhist temple." Garberi, Forti, USI IMPROPRI (?) 101

• "In the early days of the NSS the first person to explore a new cave was in the habit of writing his (or her) NSS membership number at the entrance and at the point of the furthest penetration using soot from a carbide lamp." Crane, Cave 80
• "New caves were found also by the caretaker at Wombeyan." Shaw, cave science 61

• "Kooringa Cave...The survival of this very old cave must therefore be limited." Ellis, Wombeyan 43
• "These old caves became filled up with gold-bearing gravel and silt, and the valley also to a level of about 80 feet above that of the caves." Shaw, cave science 59

• "Kooringa is one of the older caves formed when Wombeyan Creek cut down through the marble in the vicinity of Victoria Arch." Ellis, Wombeyan
  

• "Over the years we discovered numerous high-level passages und caverns tht soared up out of reach, to connect with other caves and inlets from the surface." Eyre, Cave Explorers 36
• "Great Onyx has a big beetle population, probably causing a higher predation rate than in other caves." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 45
• The longest of the caves, Cueva del Cascajo, about 3 km in length, war partly surveyed and nine other caves were visitied." Kempe, Galapagos 143
  

• "Many features in the game (Colossal Cave Adventure) exist in the real cave." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 217
• "The text relating to 'real' caves is found at the end of the Liber secundus." Kempe, Kircher 61
• "If "ice cave" is used, except in its true sense of glacier ice cave, it seems at least as though it should be so only for real caves which retain ice, as opposed to taluses and wells." Balch,Glacières 110

• "Those were the same caves where during the Bird-Man's Day the first bird manutara arrival was looked out for." Ciszewski, Easter Island 21
• "The same cave (Pixy's Cave) also features in the Hercule Poirot mystery Evil under the Sun (1941)." Crane, Cave 139

• "We should have a cave"," remarked Beni; "for we must store our plunder an a safe place. Can you tell us of a secret cave?" he asked Martha." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities  192
• "Whereas Coleridge gestures in this direction, there are voices throughout Auden's verse, chuckling, crying, purring, whispering and murmuring from the secret caves and underground streams beneath the limestone landscape." Crane, Cave 131

• "A lot of evidence supports the fact that in separate caves members of one family were buried." Ciszewski, Easter Island 25
• "Cave databases listed caves that were clearly small fragments of a larger relict drainage system as distinct, separate caves." Crane, Cave 38
• "Camas Malag Cave...There are two separate caves here, but because they are so close, they are treated as one." Oldham, Scotland 22

• "Deer Cave...The enclosed valley upstream had been tentatively named the Garden of Eden, and it yielded several caves, but most didn't go far." Brook, Waltham, Mulu part 1, S 5#
• "Aragonite has been detected using XRD in several caves at Wombeyan including Sigma Cave and Wollondilly Cave." Ellis, Wombeyan 73
• "Deliberate search for bones as in Europe led to the exploration of several caves." Shaw, cave science 60

• "There were also half-underground rooms in shallow caves with holes in their ceilings." Ciszewski, Easter Island 28
• "Mulwaree Cave....Three roots penetrated into this shallow cave in search of water and with time were encased in stone as calcite-containing solutions trickled over them." Ellis, Wombeyan 43

• "No matter, it was considered to be a single cave." Crane, Cave 38
• "A single cave is known which would supply us for the whole term of a war." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 84
• "In fact, two-thirds of the guano species recorded at Wombeyan are only known from a single cave." Ellis, Wombeyan 125

• "Rather small caves called pahu served as the owner's refuge." Ciszewski, Easter Island 24
• "In addition to unexplored areas in Mammoth Cave, trips go to smaller caves in the park and to previously explored areas that need re-surveying due to errors mad in previous surveys." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 106
• "Coed-Y-Mwstwr Woods Cave...A small cave consisting of a single passage-" Stratford, South Wales 10

• "Some caves, of course, are natural death traps and any cavers wishing to explore theses types of flood channels should be as sure of the weather as they can be." Eyre., Cave Explorers 58
• "In some caves the air is dangerous due to high concentrations of carbon dioxide." Crane, Cave 22
• "The tackle required to visit some caves can run into hundreds of pounds and as most clubs have a store of tackle available for use by members this can save the potential caver a great deal of expense.2 Stratford, South Wales 5

• "Rowten Pot...On the original descent of this spectacular cave, the old-timers had pheasant and bottles of champagne lowered to them in baskets to celebrate the occasion." Eyre, Jim (1981): The Cave Explorers, The Stalactite Press, Calgary 58
• "The most spectacular and oft-visited cave is the Tunnel Cave at Gley Bay mentioned by most of the earlier accounts." Oldham, Scotland 126

• "Shakespeare's Cave...An active and very sporting cave offering some difficulties and a thorough soaking even in summer." Stratford, South Wales 22
• "Some of the most insignificant caves have the longest histories, whilst one of the longst and most sporting caves - Jeanie Barries' may be dismissed in a few lines." Oldham, Scotland iii

• "If you want to see "glow worms" in a cave, you should head south of the Tennessee state line to Hazard Cave (a rock shelter rather than a true cave) in Picket State Park: actually, they are glowing fungus gnat larvae, but the name "glow larvae" lacks appeal." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 58
• "An opening or recess in the earth which cannot be described as a 'void' - a rock shelter of cliff-side overhang - is not a cave, but if its darker pockets contain mineral formations typical of a "true cave", or provide habitat for organisms which populate caves, it may be described as a 'borderline cave.'" Crane, Cave 10

• "At first, the settlers who found Mammoth Cave in the late 1700s thought they discovered a previously unknown cave." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 71
• "In Switzerland, a sudden flood burst from a large, previously unknown cave in the Tête Rousse Glacier and killed some 150 sleeping villagers." Halliday, Glaciospeleology  31

• "The next unnamed cave is 5x4x2 m big." Ciszewski, Easter Island 49
• "This social satire about greed and materialism is told from the unusual perspective of a handkerchief. Cooper, best known for his novel The Last of the Mohicans (1826), mentions unnamed Kentucky caves in this less-well-known work." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 185

• "Robin Hood, perhaps the most famous of all legendary outlaws, is said to have taken refuge on several occasions in a cave, and nowadays various caves, each supposedly the site of his temporary hide-out, bear his name." Crane, Cave 104
• "There are a number of single-person entries on a given date in various caves, but in all cases checked, it turned out that only one person in a group signed the register." Wilson, Solo Cave Myth 20

• ""Bill Cuddington, known affectionately as 'Vertical Bill', is widely regarded as the fathere of vertical caving (descending and ascending vertical caves on ropes) in the United States." Crane, Cave 81
• "Despite the obvious limitations by poor equipment, techniques and the general infant state of Soviet speleology at that time, the Georgian researchers explored several vertical caves to a depth of -250 m and pointed out the considerable depth potential of the area." Klimchou, Kubera 25

• "She felt as if the whole cave was shaking, but she says it might have been only the concrete platform." O'Connor Olson, Colleen, Mammoth Cave Curiosities 16
• "Deer Cave...Because of its vast size, daylight penetrates virtually the whole cave, which simplifies navigation." Brook, Waltham, Mulu part 1, 3
  
• "The entrance to the cave is so large that plenty of daylight is admitted, and the whole cave easily examined." Balch, Glacières 11

• "The entrance zone..open entrance in a forested valley - is the furthest most people will ever venture into 'wild caves'." Crane, Cave 20
• "Some of these wild caves have been developed and shown to tourists in the past, others have never been developed." Ellis, Wombeyan 51