Apsley Cherry-Garrard famous quotes

04-17-2025

Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.
-- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#Time #Way #Exploration
If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.
-- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#Winter #Journey #Eggs
The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.
-- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#Civilization #Luxury #Want
Some will tell you that you are mad, and nearly all will say, 'What is the use?' For we are a nation of shopkeepers, and no shopkeeper will look at research which will not promise him a financial return within a year. And so you will sledge nearly alone, but those with whom you sledge will not be shopkeepers: that is worth a good deal. If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.
-- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#Winter #Journey #Years
Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion. And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.... If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.
-- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#Passion #Winter #Journey
And if the worst, or best, happens, and Death comes for you in the snow, he comes disguised as Sleep, and you greet him rather as a welcome friend than a gruesome foe.
-- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#Sleep #Snow #Welcome
I might have speculated on my chances of going to Heaven; but candidly I did not care. I could not have wept if I had tried. I had no wish to review the evils of my past. But the past did seem to have been a bit wasted. The road to Hell may be paved with good intentions: the road to Heaven is paved with lost opportunities.
-- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#Past #Opportunity #Evil
Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.
-- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#Believe #Earth #Penguins
We are a nation of shop keepers.
-- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#Keepers #Shops
I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.
-- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#Journey #Penguins #Coming Out
The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect. Consequently, when the pony was faced with conditions different from those to which he was accustomed, he showed little adaptability.
-- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#Horse #Memories #Real
And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.
-- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#Expression #Giving #Desire
For a joint scientificÂ and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, give meÂ Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen; and if I am in the devil of aÂ hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.
-- Apsley Cherry-Garrard

#Winter #Journey #Organization

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