Top 31 Antarctic Quotes

#1. Since the Antarctic palms of the Eocene, some fifty million years ago.

Elizabeth Kolbert

Antarctic Quotes #13653
#2. Now I know how to make it as a pedophile. Forget lollypops. Antarctic wildlife is the ticket.

Jacob M. Appel

Antarctic Quotes #32195
#3. I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant.

Robert Falcon Scott

Antarctic Quotes #97507
#4. I was beyond Ice Princess. I was Sorceress of the Antarctic and a bitchy one at that.

Kristen Ashley

Antarctic Quotes #150216
#5. What I'm going for with the string arrangements for my Antarctic symphony is a pun here.

DJ Spooky

Antarctic Quotes #301665
#6. But the smoke goes out of the chimney and into the air and sometimes I look up into the sky and I think that there are molecules of Mother up there, or in clouds over Africa or the Antarctic, or coming down as rain in the rainforests in Brazil, or in snow somewhere.

Mark Haddon

Antarctic Quotes #420494
#7. Year by year, more and more of the world gets disenchanted. Even the icy privacy of the arctic and antarctic circles is invaded. We have played Jack Horner with our earth, till there is never a plum left in it.

James Russell Lowell

Antarctic Quotes #436023
#8. The biggest single-celled organisms in the world. They live beneath the Antarctic ice. And as they grow, they take grains of sand from their environment and glue them together to form hard outer skins.

Neal Stephenson

Antarctic Quotes #442448
#9. And that bastard Breckinridge Scott, yes, the Phalanx king, still hiding like a rat in his Antarctic Fortress of Scumditude.
Arthur Sinclair

Max Brooks

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#10. One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.

Lincoln Ellsworth

Antarctic Quotes #564887
#11. After the conquest of the South Pole by Amundsen who, by a narrow margin of days only, was in advance of the British Expedition under Scott, there remained but one great main object of Antarctic journeying - the crossing of the South Polar continent from sea to sea

Ernest Shackleton

Antarctic Quotes #570813
#12. Antarctic symphony has a geometric relationship to the landscape. It's saying that this landscape and the minimal kind of, you know I'm talking like seeing ice, is visually kind of eerily minimal.

DJ Spooky

Antarctic Quotes #701397
#13. [A]s previous studies have concluded, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are probably thickening rather than melting.

Myron Ebell

Antarctic Quotes #740641
#14. Obviously, because of my disability, I need assistance. But I have always tried to overcome the limitations of my condition and lead as full a life as possible. I have traveled the world, from the Antarctic to zero gravity.

Stephen Hawking

Antarctic Quotes #745478
#15. The Arctic and the Antarctic are melting quickly. We may have waited too long to get started. But this is a day for optimism because the battle is fully joined, and the idea that big oil is unbeatable is no longer true.

Bill McKibben

Antarctic Quotes #779216
#16. The fossil record shows that no other species of large-bodied beast - above the size of an ant, say, or of an Antarctic krill - has ever achieved anything like such abundance as the abundance of humans on Earth right now.

David Quammen

Antarctic Quotes #785996
#17. Giordino ... simply sighed in resignation. "Who else," he asked no one in particular, "but Dirk Pitt could tramp off into a blizzard on an uninhabited backwater island in the Antarctic and discover a beautiful girl?

Clive Cussler

Antarctic Quotes #934988
#18. Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first Arctic crossing in winter. I didn't want the same to happen in the Antarctic.

Ranulph Fiennes

Antarctic Quotes #949766
#19. Men, as Amundsen liked to say, are the unknown factor in the Antarctic.

Roland Huntford

Antarctic Quotes #1017716
#20. We are a nation of shop keepers.

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Antarctic Quotes #1079973
#21. Beginning in 1986, a series of field experiments were designed to test the various hypotheses which had been put forth to explain the Antarctic ozone hole.

Mario J. Molina

Antarctic Quotes #1243321
#22. You wait. Everyone has an Antarctic.

Thomas Pynchon

Antarctic Quotes #1406235
#23. Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic explorers, is based on a common experience of transcendence; fat or thin, scratch or duffer, we have been somerwhere together where non-golfers never go.

John Updike

Antarctic Quotes #1441898
#24. I felt like on one hand the clarity of thought was amazing, but on the other we went during Antarctic summer, so the sun didn't set the whole time we were there.

DJ Spooky

Antarctic Quotes #1448085
#25. I felt as lonely and desolate as a man suddenly fallen from the clouds into an unknown town on the Antarctic Continent built of ice and inhabited by Penguins. Who are these people? I asked myself irritably.

W.N.P. Barbellion

Antarctic Quotes #1544598
#26. In Winter, [the Antarctic] is perhaps the dreariest of places. Our base, Little America, lay in a bowl of ice, near the edge of the Ross Ice Barrier. The temperature fell as low as 72 degrees below zero. One could actually hear one's breath freeze.

Richard E. Byrd

Antarctic Quotes #1592068
#27. Although it was pointless, I prayed that Julian would suddenly have flown to the Antarctic to live in a penguin colony. Or that he'd just say no. After all, it was he who'd been so emphatic that we should move on. He did neither.

Lucy Robinson

Antarctic Quotes #1720157
#28. There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or cycle across the Antarctic - like Ranulph Fiennes, who just does it because it's there. And then there are people like me, who are just genuinely curious about the world.

Michael Palin

Antarctic Quotes #1778449
#29. There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never leave the country, some men are stationed in the Antarctic and some are stationed in San Francisco. It's very hard in military or in personal life to assure complete equality. Life is unfair.

John F. Kennedy

Antarctic Quotes #1856982
#30. It is foolish to claim, as some do, that emigration into space offers a long-term escape from Earth's problems. Nowhere in our solar system offers an environment even as clement as the Antarctic or the top of Everest.

Martin Rees

Antarctic Quotes #1858111
#31. My Antarctic expedition is just about doable, just feasible and that's what is exciting to me. If I knew it was possible, if I knew I could do it without too much bother, I wouldn't be interested.

Ben Saunders

Antarctic Quotes #1879191

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