About Quote by Tim Cahill

“Early Arctic explorers made this same crucial error. They excitedly envisioned the place and came to it fortified by their own cultural assumptions. The…

— Zack Eswine

In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization at all.

— Apsley Cherry-Garrard

The truth is that the scientific value of Polar exploration is greatly exaggerated. The thing that takes men on such hazardous trips is really…

— H. L. Mencken

I think observers, like me, sometimes know more about a place than the people who have lived there all their lives. People are always…

— Jean Marsh

The Arctic as a lesser-known region of the world was the ideal destination - beautiful, mysterious, lethal, enchanting and, crucially, populated with extraordinary death-defying…

— Alexander Armstrong

I'd rather write about polar bears than people.

— Mary Oliver

I think that I was slightly naive. I thought that if I showed people the beauty of the Arctic and the beauty of the…

— Anonymous

Yet there are thousands of Indigenous people searching for family members.

— Malcolm Fraser

I grew up in the north woods of Canada. You had to know certain things about survival. Wilderness survival courses weren't very formalized when…

— Margaret Atwood

We need to save the Arctic not because of the polar bears, and not because it is the most beautiful place in the world,…

— Anonymous

“There were Inuit dignitaries and observers from Nunavut Tunngavik Incorporated, the pseudo-governmental Inuit corporation that had negotiated the 1999 creation of its people’s own…

— McKenzie Funk

John Muir, the famous naturalist, wrote in his journal that you should never go to Alaska as a young man because you'll never be…

— Tom Bodett