And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.

And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.

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

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

We are a nation of shop keepers.

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

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.