54 Quotes About Antarctica
- Author Andrew Denton
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If Antarctica were music it would be Mozart. Art, and it would be Michelangelo. Literature, and it would be Shakespeare. And yet it is something even greater; the only place on earth that is still as it should be. May we never tame it.
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- Author Robert Falcon Scott
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Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority.
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- Author James Rollins
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In a plane again, Ashley thought sourly, her nose pressed to the window. Down below, glacier fought granite from horizon to horizon. This was the final leg of the two-day journey. Yesterday, they had flown the eight hundred miles from Buenos Aires to Esperanza, the Argentine army base on the tip on an Antarctic Peninsula. There, Ashley had her first taste of Antarctic air - like ice water poured into her lungs.
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- Author Ian Allison
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Sea ice conditions have remained stable in Antarctica generally.
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- Author Kate Atkinson
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When I started 'Case Histories,' the characters were all going to Antarctica on a cruise. The first part was called 'Embarkation.' It was supposed to be about everyone preparing to embark on the cruise, but it mushroomed into an entire book.
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- Author Sam Abell
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I would like to go to Antarctica. That's about all.
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- Author Orlando Bloom
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I went to Antarctica on a science research boat just to sort of clear my head.
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- Author Peter Brown
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We're comparing the event to other data of cloud cover, temperature and other factors near Antarctica at that time. It's still too early to tell, but there's a lot of curiosity about events like this and not a lot of data. We've been comparing notes and pooling data to learn more.
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- Author Charlie Hartwell
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That's all dependent on the wind and weather. Life in Antarctica is controlled by those two things.
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