“How varied are the experiences one lives through in the Arctic”. – Christiane Ritter, A Woman in the Polar Night

“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea

“We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence” — Paul Auster

But 'tis strange. And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's. In deepest consequence. – Shakespeare. Macbeth

"The Arctic does not yield its secret for the price of a ship's ticket." – Christiane Ritter, A Woman in the Polar Night

"The least we can do is try to be there." — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

"Have you seen the snow leopard? No! Isn't that wonderful?" — Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard

"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." – John Muir

"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." – Jacques Cousteau

“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean." – Arthur C. Clarke

"One learns from the sea how little one needs, not how much." – Robin Lee Graham, Dove

"Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you."
— Richard Aldington

But it is also true that one will never experience in the Arctic anything that one has not oneself brought there. — Christiane Ritter (A Woman in the Polar Night)

“Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." – Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)

"Memory is the space in which a thing happens for the second time." — Paul Auster, Moon Palace

“The history of football is a sad voyage from beauty to duty." - Eduardo Galeano (Soccer in Sun and Shadow)

"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it." — Robert Swan

"The more you know, the less you need.” – Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia founder):

“For here there are no days because there are no nights. One day melts into the next, and you cannot say this is the end of today and now it is tomorrow and that was yesterday.” – Christiane Ritter (A Woman in the Polar Night)

Angst macht den Wolf größer, als er ist. (Fear makes the wolf look bigger) — German proverb