"Golf camaraderie, like that of astronauts and Antarctic……" — John Updike

More Antarctic Quotes

This quote is filed under Antarctic Quotes, one of 18 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be… — Arthur C. Clarke
• There is always inequity in life. Some men are killed in war and some men are wounded; some men never… — John F. Kennedy
• Behind us lay the great Antarctic Land; snow peaks rising beyond one another until by distance they dwindled away into… — Unknown Author
• There are people who travel because they want to push themselves to physical limits, people who walk across deserts or… — Michael Palin
• I have come to the conclusion that life in the Antarctic Regions can be very pleasant. — Robert Falcon Scott
• There will be a shifting of the poles. There will be upheavals in the Arctic and the Antarctic that will… — Edgar Cayce
• One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination… — Lincoln Ellsworth
• [In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month… — Unknown Author
• In Winter, [the Antarctic] is perhaps the dreariest of places. Our base, Little America, lay in a bowl of ice,… — Richard E. Byrd
• Could the waters of the Atlantic be drawn off, so as to expose to view this great sea-gash, which separates… — Matthew Fontaine Maury
• Patience is what you need in the Antarctic. Wait-Give wind and tide a chance to change. — Richard E. Byrd
• Rivalry is one of the factors pushing me. While my back was turned, the Norwegians managed to achieve the first… — Ranulph Fiennes

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