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

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.

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

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

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.

We are a nation of shop keepers.

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