I might have speculated on my chances of going to Heaven; but candidly I did not care. I could not have wept… — 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
Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised. — 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
