Failure Quote by Bill Bryson

“Turn left at Greenland....”

— John Lennon

[Reporter: How did you find America?] We turned left at Greenland.

— John Lennon

“Maybe the Europeans once thought the earth was flat, but the Eskimos always knew it was round. One only needed to look at the…

— Jean Craighead George

“Geography was fungible, fluid, unreliable.”

— Catherynne M. Valente

“There’s something about north,” he said, “something that sets it apart from all other directions. A person who is heading north is not making…

— E.B. White

“She had sunk at latitude 77°15 N, longitude 155° E, a little more than seven hundred miles south of the North Pole.”

— Hampton Sides

“Let it be sufficient to say that, on this night, he was still my lighthouse and albatross in equal measure. The only thing more…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

“The earth’s surface measures about 510 million square kilometres”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“If you think that climate change and global warming are hoaxes, then you are easily fooled.”

— Steven Magee

“We were not many, and the world was very small. There were strange lands to the east- islands like Akutan; so we thought all…

— Jack London

That explains a lot,' he said. 'I suppose it's also why we've never glimpsed that giant compass in the corner of the Atlantic. I…

— Gideon Defoe

For several days in July of 2012, Greenland surface ice cover melted more than at any time in 30 years of satellite observation. During…

— Brian Schatz