Civilization Quote by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

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

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

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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 power to…

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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 material less spectacular but gathered just as carefully hour by hour, in wind and drift, darkness and cold, was striven for in order that the world may have a little more knowledge, that it may build on what…

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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 at all.

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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 self —…

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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 of shopkeepers,…

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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 if I…

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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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We are a nation of shop keepers.

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

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