- Literature
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- Nov 07, 2020
Glacier Quotes
On ice, adventure, and the pull of glacier landscapes.
These glacier quotes capture adventure in extreme cold, from snowshoeing across Spitsbergen in winter to climbing a glacier in driving snow, an adventurous spirit also found in our beautiful quotes collection.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Dark
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- Nov 07, 2020
To get the feel of the polar night, I went back to Spitsbergen in winter. I went snowshoeing in the dark and experimented with headlamps and climbed a glacier in driving snow.
- Protection
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- Nov 07, 2020
The two principal parks in Alaska are Denali and Glacier Bay. Tourism is just overriding the protection of resources that tourists want to see. We have too many tourists in Denali and too many big cruise ships in Glacier Bay.
- Mountains
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't learn to swim until I was 21 or something because I grew up in the mountains in Wyoming and all the water is glacier runoff and cold.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
The glacier was God's great plough set at work ages ago to grind, furrow, and knead over, as it were, the surface of the earth.
- Cinema
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of the things I love about working with my brother is that there's a commitment there - an unwavering commitment. From our basement in Illinois when I was three years old to Iceland on a frozen glacier with Matthew McConaughey and Matt Damon in spacesuits - there's a commitment to the pure spectacle, the pure cinema of it.
- Heart
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is a glacier in Iceland, Solheimar, which has retreated a great deal, and every time I go back there and see what's not there any more, it does something to the heart. It makes you realise it's possible for a gigantic natural element to just disappear.
- Change
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- Nov 07, 2020
The 'New Yorker' asked me to shoot a story on climate change in 2005, and I wound up going to Iceland to shoot a glacier. The real story wasn't the beautiful white top. It ended up being at the terminus of the glacier where it's dying.
- Fashion
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- Nov 07, 2020
Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.
- Glaciers
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- Nov 07, 2020