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The Worst Journey in the World QUOTES

The Worst Journey in the World QUOTES

41 " Poor trustful creatures! If I could have done it then, I would gladly have killed them rather than picture them starving on that floe out on the Ross Sea, or eaten by the exultant Killers that cruised around. "

― Apsley Cherry-Garrard , The Worst Journey in the World

42 " We traveled for science: those three small embryos from Cape Crozier, that weight of fossils from Barkley Island, and that mass of material less spectacular but gathered just as carefully hour by hour, in wind and drift, darkness and cold, was striven for in order that the world may have a little more knowledge, that it may build on what it knows instead of on what it thinks. "

― Apsley Cherry-Garrard , The Worst Journey in the World

43 " Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a Heaven for? R. Browning, Andrea del Sarto. "

― Apsley Cherry-Garrard , The Worst Journey in the World

44 " Five men went forward, Scott, Wilson, Bowers, Oates and Seaman Evans. They reached the Pole on January 17 to find that Amundsen had reached it thirty-four days earlier. They returned 721 statute miles and perished 177 miles from their winter quarters. "

― Apsley Cherry-Garrard , The Worst Journey in the World

45 " I for one had come to that point of suffering at which I did not really care if only I could die without much pain. They talk of the heroism of the dying—they little know—it would be so easy to die, a dose of morphia, a friendly crevasse, and blissful sleep. The trouble is to go on.... "

― Apsley Cherry-Garrard , The Worst Journey in the World

46 " A telegram was waiting for Scott: "Madeira. Am going South. Amundsen. "

― Apsley Cherry-Garrard , The Worst Journey in the World