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Top 20 Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quotes (2025 Update)

Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quote: “The luxuries of civilization satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.”

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

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quote: “In Antarctica you get to know people so well that in comparison you do not seem to know the people in civilization at all.”

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

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quote: “If you march your Winter Journeys you will have your reward, so long as all you want is a penguin’s egg.”

4. “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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Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quote: “Take it all in all, I do not believe anybody on earth has a worse time than an Emperor penguin.”

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

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quote: “Polar exploration is at once the cleanest and most isolated way of having a bad time which has been devised.”

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

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quote: “The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect. Consequently, when the pony was faced with conditions different from those to which he was accustomed, he showed little adaptability.”

8. “The mind of a horse is a very limited concern, relying almost entirely upon memory. He rivals our politicians in that he has little real intellect. Consequently, when the pony was faced with conditions different from those to which he was accustomed, he showed little adaptability.”

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quote: “Accept yourself: be yourself. That seems a good rule. But which self? Even the simplest of us are complicated enough.”

9. “Accept yourself: be yourself. That seems a good rule. But which self? Even the simplest of us are complicated enough.”

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quote: “I am glad The Worst Journey is coming out in Penguins: after all it is largely about penguins.”

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

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quote: “We are a nation of shop keepers.”

11. “We are a nation of shop keepers.”

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quote: “Those Hut Point days, would prove some of the happiest of my life. Just enough to eat and keep warm, no more – no frills or trimmings: there is many a worse and more elaborate life... the luxuries of civilisation satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.”

12. “Those Hut Point days, would prove some of the happiest of my life. Just enough to eat and keep warm, no more – no frills or trimmings: there is many a worse and more elaborate life... the luxuries of civilisation satisfy only those wants which they themselves create.”

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quote: “And I tell you, if you have the desire for knowledge and the power to give it physical expression, go out and explore.”

13. “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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Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quote: “Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion.”

14. “Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion.”

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quote: “Generally the risks were taken, for, on the whole, it is better to be a little over-bold than a little over-cautious, while always there was a something inside urging you to do it just because there was a certain risk, and you hardly liked not to do it. It is so easy to be afraid of being afraid!”

15. “Generally the risks were taken, for, on the whole, it is better to be a little over-bold than a little over-cautious, while always there was a something inside urging you to do it just because there was a certain risk, and you hardly liked not to do it. It is so easy to be afraid of being afraid!”

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quote: “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 – the little they know – it would be so easy to die, a dose of morphia, a friendly crevasse, and blissful sleep. The trouble is to go on...”

16. “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 – the little they know – it would be so easy to die, a dose of morphia, a friendly crevasse, and blissful sleep. The trouble is to go on...”

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quote: “The road to Hell may be paved with good intentions: the road to Heaven is paved with lost opportunities.”

17. “The road to Hell may be paved with good intentions: the road to Heaven is paved with lost opportunities.”

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quote: “The mutual conquest of difficulties is the cement of friendship, as it is the only lasting cement of matrimony.”

18. “The mutual conquest of difficulties is the cement of friendship, as it is the only lasting cement of matrimony.”

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quote: “A war is like the Antarctic in one respect. There is no getting out of it with honour as long as you can put one foot before the other.”

19. “A war is like the Antarctic in one respect. There is no getting out of it with honour as long as you can put one foot before the other.”

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Apsley Cherry-Garrard Quote: “For an hour or so we were furiously angry, and were possessed with an insane sense that we must go straight to the Bay of Whales and have it out with Amundsen and his men in some undefined fashion or other there and then. Such a mood could not and did not bear a moment’s reflection; but it was natural enough. We had just paid the first instalment of the heart-breaking labour of making a path to the Pole; and we felt, however unreasonably, that we had earned the first right of way.”

20. “For an hour or so we were furiously angry, and were possessed with an insane sense that we must go straight to the Bay of Whales and have it out with Amundsen and his men in some undefined fashion or other there and then. Such a mood could not and did not bear a moment’s reflection; but it was natural enough. We had just paid the first instalment of the heart-breaking labour of making a path to the Pole; and we felt, however unreasonably, that we had earned the first right of way.”

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