Glaciers Quotes

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One naturally asks, what was the use of this great engine set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were,… — Louis Agassiz
...Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica, and other glaciers? Was it… — Kevin E. Trenberth
The Himalayan Glaciers on the Tibetan Plateau have been among the most affected by global warming. The Himalayas...provide more than half of the drinking water… — Al Gore
...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely. — Gordon Brown
He (Jeremy Clarkson) is the last man standing on the beach commanding the glaciers' melt waters to go back — A. A. Gill
We estimate that there are perhaps 20,000 prehistoric hunter-gatherers frozen up in those glaciers. Now, if they simply thaw and wander around, it's not a… — John Hodgman
You might not see climate change as an immediate threat to your job, your community, or your families," Kerry said. "But let me tell you,… — John F. Kerry
Global warming is one of those things, not like an earthquake where there's a big bang and you say, 'Oh, my God, this is really,… — Arnold Schwarzenegger
Then it was intoxicating. The smooth takeoff, and the free feeling of having the world drop away. Soon after leaving the ground, they were crossing… — James Salter
When Reinhold Messner returned from the first solo climb of Everest, he was severely dehydrated, and utterly exhausted; he fell down most of the last… — Kim Stanley
Up there on Huckleberry Mountain, I couldn't sleep ... As the sky broke light over the peaks of Glacier, I found myself deeply moved by… — William Kittredge
Gradually, very gradually, we saw the great mountain sides and glaciers and aretes, now one fragment and now another through the floating rifts, until far… — George Leigh Mallory
The retreat and disappearance of glaciersâ€”there are only 160,000 leftâ€”means we're burning libraries and damaging the planet, possibly beyond repair. Bit by bit, glacier by… — Gretel Ehrlich
If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing. — John D. MacDonald
Just why is Yosemite climbing so different ? Why does it have techniques, ethics and equipment all of its own ? The basic reason lies… — Yvon Chouinard
The idiotic industry of an ant building his hill in the path of a glacier, and imagining that he is free. — John Clellon Holmes
Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park — Donella Meadows
The country through which we had been travelling for days has an original beauty. Wide plains were diversified by stretches of hilly country with low… — Heinrich Harrer
Just to lie here in the sun with great white peaks all around me and the biggest glacier in Europe at my feet, to eat… — George Leigh Mallory
Most of us are searching-consciously or unconsciously- for a degree of internal balance and harmony between ourselves and the outside world, and if we happen… — Walter Murch

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