"Meteorite hunting is not for wimps. The best……" — Mary Roach
"Meteorite hunting is not for wimps. The best places to look are also the coldest and windiest. You need very old ice, and you need wind, lots of it, strong and unrelenting. Antarctica fits the bill."
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71 Quotes by Mary Roach
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More Antarctica Quotes
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...Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica,…
— Kevin E. Trenberth
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First you fall in love with Antarctica, and then it breaks your heart.
— Kim Stanley
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Consider this: I can go to Antarctica and get cash from an ATM without a glitch, but should I fall…
— Nathan Deal
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Some 3 million years ago, when the earth was a little more than 3°C warmer than preindustrial levels (about 2.2°C…
— Joseph J. Romm
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Antarctica has this mythic weight. It resides in the collective unconscious of so many people, and it makes this huge…
— Jon Krakauer
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More people should visit Antarctica, metaphorically speaking, on their own. That is one of the conclusions I have reached, one…
— Phyllis Rose
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I should kill myself. Things would be better if I did. For me anyway. I don’t know how it would…
— Noah Cicero
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[In Adelie Land, Antarctica, a howling river of] wind, 50 miles wide, blows off the plateau, month in and month…
— Unknown Author
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If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare.…
— Andrew Denton
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The swim at Deception Island was by far the hardest swim I've ever done. Antarctica is a very unforgiving environment.…
— Lewis Gordon
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For years, I never knowingly went on a holiday. When I travelled, it was for work. Now I am a…
— Miranda Richardson
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I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.
— Jon Krakauer
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