The Ray Bradbury Theater (TV Series)

A Sound of Thunder (1989)

John Bach: Travis

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Quotes 

• Travis : If we kill a mouse here, all the future family of that mouse is killed, right? And all the families of all the families. You step on a mouse, you annihilate one, a thousand, a million possible mice.

  Eckles : Well?

  Travis : Well... For want of ten mice, a fox dies. For want of a fox, a lion starves. For want of a lion, infinite billions of life forms cease to exist. A caveman goes hunting, but you, friend, have stepped on all his lions. The caveman starves. From his loins might have sprung ten sons. From these a hundred. Kill this one man, you destroy a race of people, an entire history of life. Europe remains forever a dark forest. Step on a mouse, you leave your print like a grand canyon across eternity. So stay on the path!

• Travis : Didn't you write a book... "Dinosaurs I Have Known"?

  Eckles : Mere fantasy.

  Travis : Right. You've known nothing until today.

• Eckles : Every hunter that ever lived would envy us today. Huh. From now on, Africa will seem like Illinois.

  Travis : Have you ever visited Hell, Mr. Eckles? Until you visit Hell, don't make comparisons.

  Eckles : I'm ready.

  Travis : Yes.

• Travis : That is the jungle of sixty million, two thousand, and fifty-five years before the moment you stepped into our office, Mr. Eckles. Christ isn't born yet. Moses has not gone to the mountains to talk with God. The Pyramids lie still in the Earth. Hell.

• Travis : His breathing could vacuum clean the Empire State Building. Oh, I do go on.