Greenland Quotes:

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

- Dorothy Parker

source: Quoted in John Keats, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker (1970)

topic: Art, Two, Australia, Greenland

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body.

- Annie Dillard

topic: People, Soul, Inuit, Greenland

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn't want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland.

- Elizabeth Gilbert

topic: Running, Divorce, Doors, Contradicting, Eat Pray And Love

Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of coastal cities will be abandoned. The rice growing river deltas of Asia will be under water. There will be hundreds of millions of rising-sea refuges. The word that comes to mind is chaos. If we cannot mobilize to save the Greenland ice sheet; we probably cannot save civilization as we know it.

- Lester R. Brown

topic: Ice, Sea, Civilization, Delta, Coastal

If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current.

- Jay Inslee

topic: Hockey, Ice, Currents, Greenland

I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.

- Ralph Steadman

topic: Moving, Sea, Atmosphere, Greenland

Were I laid on Greenland's Coast, And in my Arms embrac'd my Lass; Warm amidst eternal Frost, Too soon the Half Year's Night would pass.

- John Gay

source: John Gay (1782). “The Beggar's Opera”, p.19

topic: Night, Years, Frost, Greenland

Like there's actually a need for Greenland. You can get ice at 7-Eleven.

- Steve Kluger

source: Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.83, Penguin

topic: Ice, Needs, Eleven, My Most Excellent Year, Greenland

While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over the horizon to the edge of dawn, ahead to Ireland, England, and the continent of Europe, away through space to the moon and stars, always returning, unwillingly, to the mortal duty of seeing that the limbs and muscles have attended their routine while it was gone.

- Charles Lindbergh

topic: Stars, Eye, Moon, Intervening, Thickness

From Greenland's icy mountains, From India's coral strand, Where Afric's sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error's chain.

- Reginald Heber

source: Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber (1834). “The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok: Complete in One Volume”, p.26

topic: Land, Rivers, Errors, Greenland

[A]s previous studies have concluded, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are probably thickening rather than melting.

- Myron Ebell

topic: Ice, Melting, Study, Greenland

That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before. Suddenly I was staying there and hiking there, and we took a mini iceberg out of the water and chipped it up and used it as ice cubes and made cocktails with it. It's surreal.

- Adam Richman

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Opportunity, Ice, Hiking, Greenland

We were filming in Greenland, and I treated my crew. It's 24 hours of pretty bright daylight there right now, and I always try to do something nice for my crew every trip or in every other city. So I greeted them with a midnight cruise, but it looked like two in the afternoon.

- Adam Richman

source: Source: www.avclub.com

topic: Nice, Cities, Two, Greenland

The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland.

- Larry Trask

topic: Alaska, Snow, Different, English Speaking, Skiers

I am involved in making measurements in polar oceans, and they are changing more than anything else. I think we have to be prepared for major changes associated with the melting of floating ice and the melting of the Greenland glacier.

- Walter Munk

topic: Ocean, Thinking, Ice, Greenland, Major Change

Sometimes I'd like to have a conversation with a friend in a restaurant without feeling I'm being watched. At this rate I will have to go on holiday to Greenland. But maybe the Eskimos would know me.

- Fernando Torres

topic: Soccer, Football, Holiday, Greenland

For me the most important issue is climate change because it in some ways trumps every other issue. Everything else we care about falls by the wayside if the Greenland ice shelf falls into the sea. And if suddenly sea levels rise 21 feet, everything we hold near and dear ceases to exist.

- Moby

topic: Fall, Sea, Feet, Greenland, Sea Level Rise

Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the last six or eight months, the data on what is happening to the ice shelves in Greenland and the west Antarctic has begun to cause people to radically reassess the earlier conviction that those ice shelves were stable on a kind of century-long time scale.

- Bill McKibben

source: Source: theotherjournal.com

topic: Eight, Ice, Data, Greenland

Ice in the West Antarctic and over Greenland, i.e., ice that's over a rock at the moment, that will raise the level of the sea as it slides into the ocean, putting at risk everyone and everything that lives on the coasts, and that includes an enormous percentage of the world's people.

- Bill McKibben

source: Source: theotherjournal.com

topic: Ocean, Rocks, Ice, Greenland

A cumulative change of less than 2°C by the end of this century will do no net harm. It will actually do net good [...] rainfall will increase slightly, growing seasons will lengthen, Greenland's ice cap will melt only very slowly, and so on.

- Matt Ridley

topic: Ice, Growing, Increase, Rainfall, Greenland

...Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica, and other glaciers? Was it because the heat was buried in the ocean and sequestered, perhaps well below the surface?...Perhaps all of these things are going on?

- Kevin E. Trenberth

topic: Ocean, Sea, Ice, Below The Surface, Greenland

The close relationships between the abrupt ups and downs of solar activity and of temperature that I have identified occur locally in coastal Greenland; regionally in the Arctic Pacific and north Atlantic; and hemispherically for the whole circum-Arctic, suggesting that changes in solar activity drive Arctic and perhaps even global climate.

- Willie Soon

source: "It's the Sun, stupid!: New direct evidence demonstrate that changes in solar activity influence climate". Essay by Willie Soon, March 9, 2009.

topic: Climate, Temperature, Arctic, Close Relationship, Pacific

...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately deep water .... That these littoral mollusks indicate by their presence on both sides of the Atlantic, some ancient continuity or contiguity of coast-line is what I firmly believe.

- Edward Forbes

source: Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.56

topic: Believe, Ocean, Water, Mollusks, Ocean Exploration