Robert Falcon Falcon Scott quotes Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions Born: 06/06/1868 Died: 03/29/1912 Country: united_kingdom

• 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)
• 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)
• But take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid. (Robert Falcon Scott)
• But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind. (Robert Falcon Scott)
• Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business. (Robert Falcon Scott)
• Each man in his way is a treasure. (Robert Falcon Scott)
• Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing. (Robert Falcon Scott)
• Hunger and fear are the only realities in dog life: an empty stomach makes a fierce dog. (Robert Falcon Scott)
• I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting. (Robert Falcon Scott)
• I fear we have shot our bolt - but we have been to Pole and done the longest journey on record. (Robert Falcon Scott)
• I may not have proved a great explorer, but we have done the greatest march ever made and come very near to great success. (Robert Falcon Scott)
• Slowly but surely the sea is freezing over. (Robert Falcon Scott)
• The dog is almost human in its demand for living interest, yet fatally less than human in its inability to foresee. (Robert Falcon Scott)
• The dog lives for the day, the hour, even the moment. (Robert Falcon Scott)
• 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)
• To wait idly is the worst of conditions. (Robert Falcon Scott)
• We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end. (Robert Falcon Scott)
• We are very near the end, but have not and will not lose our good cheer. (Robert Falcon Scott)
• We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past. (Robert Falcon Scott)
• We shall stick it out to the end, but we are getting weaker of course and the end cannot be far. It seems a pity, but I do not think I can write more. For God's sake, look after our people. (Robert Falcon Scott)

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