Determination Quote by Lincoln Ellsworth

In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

“And from th’ Antarctic Pole eastward behold As much more land, which never was descried, Wherein are rocks of pearl that shine as bright…

— Christopher Marlowe

I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.

— Orlando Bloom

“The earth’s surface is over 70 percent covered in water, and sometimes I wonder about a drop of water resting on my shoulder, whether…

— Tsh Oxenreider

From my earliest childhood I nourished and cherished the desire to make a creditable journey in a new country, and write such a respectable…

— Joseph Dalton Hooker

“You didn’t meet many people who moved freely through the world with such a vigorous contempt for it and at the same time such…

— Donna Tartt

“In Antartica, The Wright and half a dozen other valleys in the Central Transantarctic Mountains are collectively referred to as the dry valleys. It…

— Barry Lopez

I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia.

— Dorothy Parker

My childhood landscape was not land but the end of the land - the cold, salt, running hills of the Atlantic. I sometimes think…

— Sylvia Plath

“Then much later—about four or five years ago—I was on a long flight across the Pacific, staring idly out the window at moonlit ocean,…

— Bill Bryson

One of my fondest memories from childhood is of looking at a globe with my father. "What's the biggest country?" he'd ask me and…

— Charlotte Sophia Kasl

“My house completed, and tried and not found wanting by a first Cape Cod year, I went there to spend a fortnight in September.…

— Henry Beston