Antarctica Quote by Stephen Schneider

I think part of the appeal of Antarctica is experiencing some sort of power, the forces of the natural world.

— Jon Krakauer

“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

“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

“He remembered reading that Antarctica had ninety percent of the world’s ice and seventy percent of its freshwater. If you took all the water…

— A.G. Riddle

...Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica, and other glaciers? Was…

— Kevin E. Trenberth

“In our modern age, there are writers who have heaped scorn on the very idea of the primacy of story. I'd rather warm my…

— Pat Conroy

From drought-parched Brazil to the increasingly ice-free Arctic Ocean, from the rising seas along the Florida coast to the punishing heat waves hitting South…

— Brian Deese

“Atlantic Ocean 88 Miles off the Coast of Antarctica Karl Selig steadied himself on the ship’s rail and peered through the binoculars at the…

— A.G. Riddle

Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of…

— Bill Bryson

“Apart from the jet-black sky, the photo might have been taken almost anywhere in the polar regions of Earth; there was nothing in the…

— Arthur C. Clarke

Facts are the soil from which the story grows. Imagination is a last resort.

— Dorothy Dunnett

A plain narrative of any remarkable fact, emphatically related, has a more striking effect without the author's comment.

— William Shenstone