As one looks across the barren stretches... by Robert Falcon Scott | We Heart Quotes

Life Discovery explorer Expedition South Pole

As one looks across the barren stretches of the pack, it is sometimes difficult to realise what teeming life exists immediately beneath its surface.

- Robert Falcon Scott

Other quotes by Robert Falcon Scott

Fear

I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record.

- Robert Falcon Scott

Day Now

The events of the day's march are now becoming so dreary and dispiriting that one longs to forget them when we camp; it is an effort even to record them in a diary.

- Robert Falcon Scott

Fear

Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog.

- Robert Falcon Scott

Country

But if we have been willing to give our lives to this enterprise, which is for the honour of our country, I appeal to our countrymen to see that those who depend on us are properly cared for.

- Robert Falcon Scott

End Will

We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer.

- Robert Falcon Scott

To wait idly is the worst of conditions.

- Robert Falcon Scott

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