Quotes About Survival

consisting of canned vegetables, tapioca, dog pemmican, and jam.

In a tired hand he concluded the entry: "My dogs will be shot tomorrow.

and the Endurance lay in a small pool of open water—truly afloat for the first time since she was beset nine months before.

Shackleton told Macklin that since the party now had a fair supply of meat, his dogs would not be killed

Hurley's team though, including the leader, Shakespeare, the biggest of all the dogs, was shot.

then raised their heads and uttered a series of weird, mournful, dirgelike cries.

The Stancomb Wills was safe in camp by one o'clock.

From studying the outcome of past expeditions, he believed that those that burdened themselves with equipment to meet every contingency had fared much worse than those that had sacrificed total preparedness for speed.

where the stores left in 1902 should still be.

and they would be dragging two of their three boats with them

On February 9, Shackleton wrote: "No seals. Must reduce blubber consumption . . . oh for a touch of dry land under our feet.

stewed penguin heart, liver, eyes, tongues, toes & God knows what else, with a cup of water" to wash it down.

All hands were put to the slaughter, bringing in every penguin that could be reached.

There was only food for those who could pull their weight.

Tom Crean, tough and practical as ever, took the younger puppies

They had had no sleep for almost eighty hours, and their bodies had been drained by exposure

Another night, this time without a drop of water, and possibly another gale—they simply did not have it in them.

Wild, with six men, was sent back to the ship to salvage anything of value.

No matter what the odds, a man does not pin his last hope for survival on something and then expect that it will fail.

In some ways they had come to know themselves better. In this lonely world of ice and emptiness, they had achieved at least a limited kind of contentment. They had been tested and found not wanting.

He promised to write a book later about the trip. He sold the rights to the motion pictures and still photographs that would be taken, and he agreed to give a long lecture series on his return. In all these arrangments, there was one basic assumption - that Shackleton would survive.

In all the world there is no desolation more complete than the polar night. It is a return to the Ice Age— no warmth, no life, no movement. Only those who have experienced it can fully appreciate what it means to be without the sun day after day and week after week. Few men unaccustomed to it can fight off its effects altogether, and it has driven some men mad.

Nature, red in tooth and claw.

I]t is indisputably the mediocre, if not the low, both as regards morality and intelligence, who succeed in life and multiply the fastest.