Apsley Cherry-Garrard

(1886–1959) Polar Explorer

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard was a polar explorer, best known for The Worst Journey in the World.

Quick Facts About Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Born: January 2, 1886
Died: May 18, 1959
Profession: Polar Explorer
Notable works: The Worst Journey in the World

About Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Apsley George Benet Cherry-Garrard was an English explorer of Antarctica. He was a member of the Terra Nova expedition and is acclaimed for his 1922 account of this expedition, The Worst Journey in the World.

Quotes by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

We are a nation of shop keepers.

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The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

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Civilization

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In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization…

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Antarctica

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“Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.”

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Adventure

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I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.

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Coming out

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Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.

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Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.

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If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

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And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and…

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Desire

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“The point, one begins to see, was not merely to survive; it was to come through intact, true to one’s most decent…

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For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, give me Wilson; for a dash…

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Devil

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Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the…

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Desire

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The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he…

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We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of…

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Some will tell you that you are mad, and nearly all will say, 'What is the use?' For we are a nation…

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I might have speculated on my chances of going to Heaven; but candidly I did not care. I could not have wept…

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Care

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“committing suicide, both for your own sake and that of your companions. Both sexually and socially the polar explorer must make up…

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Committing suicide

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