I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing…

At a time when it's possible for thirty people to stand on the top of Everest in one day, Antarctica still remains a remote,…

— David Attenborough

The thing that is most beautiful about Antarctica for me is the light. It's like no other light on Earth, because the air is…

— Jon Krakauer

Antarctica is a very alien environment, and you can't survive here more than minutes if you're not equipped properly and doing the right thing…

— Jon Krakauer

Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge impact, just like outer…

— Jon Krakauer

“We were quiet for a while, and then I said, "I think my favorite part of Antarctica is just looking out." You know why?"…

— Maria Semple

If he’d been any other man and i'd been any other girl, I’d have called the narrowing of his heavy-lidded dark eyes lust. But…

— Karen Marie Moning

How many people are moving up toward the Antarctica, or the Arctic? Most people move down to Texas and Florida, where it's a little…

— Ron Johnson

Had we lived, I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred…

— Robert Falcon Scott

The literature of the emperor penguin is as forbidding, as inaccessible, as the frozen heart of Antarctica itself. Its beauties may be unearthly, but…

— Ursula K. Le Guin

The fact that the Antarctica is beginning to look more like it's part of the story, as well.

— Stephen Schneider

...Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica, and other glaciers? Was…

— Kevin E. Trenberth

Antarctica, one of the things that was so remarkable about it was that the ice itself is a kind of pure geometry, so say,…

— DJ Spooky

“Then he opened the Bible Queen Alexandra had given them and ripped out the flyleaf and the page containing the Twenty-third Psalm. He also…

— Alfred Lansing

“A forbidding-looking place, certainly, but that only made it seem the more pitiful. It was the refuge of twenty-two men who, at that very…

— Alfred Lansing

If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is…

— Andrew Denton