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.

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

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

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.

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

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