Arctic Quote by Alexander Armstrong

For as long as I can remember, I have loved snow and ice. As a result, I have spent most of my life exploring…

— Lonnie Dupre

“Early Arctic explorers made this same crucial error. They excitedly envisioned the place and came to it fortified by their own cultural assumptions. The…

— Zack Eswine

“Here, just below the Earth’s summit, there are towns and villages, a tangle of human lives, in the shadow of Arctic eschatology.”

— Sarah Moss

The Arctic has huge glaciers, frozen waterfalls and floating ice. This is scenery on which man has left no mark, which has stayed unchanged…

— Ann Widdecombe

To the lover of wilderness, Alaska is one of the most wonderful countries in the world.

— John Muir

The Arctic is a highway. The tree limit, the scarcity of trees, freed people to walk. Particularly in the wintertime. Which connected people physically,…

— Nils-Aslak Valkeapaa

The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and…

— William O. Douglas

I have a number of places on my wish list, including Antarctica, the Norwegian fjords, and the Amazon. I have a passion for wilderness,…

— Robert Powell

Alaska is so unblemished. It really gives you a good look back at what the earth looks like without a lot human beings crawling…

— Alan Robertson

There's a reason why Jules Verne chose the place where the glacier was, where we start to descend into the center of the earth.…

— Anita Briem

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

— Robert Falcon Scott

In Winter, [the Antarctic] is perhaps the dreariest of places. Our base, Little America, lay in a bowl of ice, near the edge of…

— Richard E. Byrd