We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less spectacular but gathered just as carefully hour by hour, in wind and drift, darkness and cold,… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect. Consequently, when the pony was faced with conditions different from those to which he… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, give me Wilson; for a dash to the… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization at all. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
“The point, one begins to see, was not merely to survive; it was to come through intact, true to one’s most decent self —… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
Some will tell you that you are mad, and nearly all will say, 'What is the use?' For we are a nation of shopkeepers,… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
I might have speculated on my chances of going to Heaven; but candidly I did not care. I could not have wept if I… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg. — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
“committing suicide, both for your own sake and that of your companions. Both sexually and socially the polar explorer must make up his mind… — Apsley Cherry-Garrard Copy Share Image
