"You wait. Everyone has an Antarctic." Thomas Pynchon

...and a community!

“Ice people say that when you leave the Antarctic, part of you stays behind forever.”

"Under its worst conditions this earth is a good place to live in."

"Ross Island is not a place for a settlement; it is a place for an elaborately equipped scientific station..."

"Exploration is the physical expression of the Intellectual Passion."

“All the world loves a penguin: I think because in many respects they are like ourselves, and in some respects what we should like to be.”

"To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield."

"He is happiest who hath to gather power and wisdom from a flower."

“A man doesn’t begin to attain wisdom until he recognizes that he is no longer indispensable.”