Some will tell you that you are mad, and nearly all will say, 'What is the use?' For … - Apsley Cherry-Garrard

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I wish there were some photographic process by which one's mind could be struck off and transferred to that of the friend we wish to know it, without the medium of this confounded letter-writing!

Apsley Cherry-Garrard

Some will tell you that you are mad, and nearly all will say, 'What is the use?' For we are a nation of shopkeepers, and no shopkeeper will look at research which will not promise him a financial return within a year. And so you will sledge nearly alone, but those with whom you sledge will not be shopkeepers: that is worth a good deal. If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin's egg.

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

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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.

Geographical, Journey, Organization, Scott, Winter

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

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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.

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

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