Quotes by Robert Falcon Scott

About Robert Falcon Scott:

Captain Robert Falcon Scott is located. During the second venture, Scott led a party of five which reached the South Pole on 17 January 1912, only to find that they had been preceded by Roald Amundsen's Norwegian expedition. On their return journey, Scott's party discovered plant fossils, proving Antarctica was once forested and joined to other continents. At a distance of 150 miles from their base camp and 11 miles from the next depot, Scott and his companions died from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold.
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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

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

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

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

Certainly dog driving is the most terrible work one has to face in this sort of business.

Robert Falcon Scott

Had we lived I should have had a tale to tell of the hardihood, endurance and courage of my companions which would have stirred the heart of every Englishman. These rough notes and our dead bodies must tell the tale.

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

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

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

Robert Falcon Scott

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

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

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 take comfort in that I die at peace with the world and myself - not afraid.

Robert Falcon Scott

I can imagine few things more trying to the patience than the long wasted days of waiting.

Robert Falcon Scott

Author Bio

  • NameRobert Falcon Scott
  • DescriptionRoyal Navy officer and explorer
  • BornJune 6, 1868
  • DiedMarch 29, 1912
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionExplorer
  • AwardsOfficer Of The Legion Of Honour; Commander Of The Royal Victorian Order