19 Quotes by Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on Earth has it worse than an Emperor penguin.

We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less spectacular but gathered just as carefully hour by hour, in wind and drift, darkness and cold, was striven for in order that the world may have a little more knowledge, that it may build on what it knows instead of on what it thinks.

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

I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.

As it was he had moods and depressions which might last for weeks. And of these there is ample evidence in diary. The man with the nerves gets things done but sometimes he has a terrible time in doing them. " Written about Scott in Chapter 6

We are a nation of shop keepers.

For a joint scientific and geographical piece of organization, give me Scott; for a winter journey, give me Wilson; for a dash to the Pole and nothing else, Amundsen; and if I am in the devil of a hole and want to get out of it, give me Shackleton every time.

The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.

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