Arctic Quotes

• Even in our day, science suspects beyond the Polar seas, at the very circle of the Arctic Pole, the existence of a sea which never freezes and a continent which is ever green.

  H. P. Blavatsky

  Ocean, Sea, Circles

  H.P. Blavatsky (2016). “The Secret Doctrine”, p.556, Penguin

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• There are two kinds of Arctic problems, the imaginary and the real. Of the two, the imaginary are the most real.

  Vilhjalmur Stefansson

  Real, Two, Kind

  1945 The Arctic in Fact and Fable.

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• I believe Ronald Reagan can make this country what it once was... an Arctic region covered with ice.

  Steve Martin

  Funny, Country, Peace

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• You know how they say, 'What happens in Vegas, stays in Vegas?' What happens in the Arctic doesn't stay in the Arctic.

  Kumi Naidoo

  Vegas, Know How, Happens

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• Like the canary in the coal mine, the climate changes already evident in the Arctic are a call to action.

  Susan Collins

  Climate, Coal, Action

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• No culture has yet solved the dilemma each has faced with the growth of a conscious mind: how to live a moral and compassionate existence when one is fully aware of the blood, the horror inherent in all life, when one finds darkness not only in one’s own culture but within oneself.

  Barry Lopez

  Blood, Darkness, Mind

  Barry Lopez (2013). “Arctic Dreams”, p.529, Open Road Media

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• O proudly name their names who bravely sail| To seek brave lost in Arctic snows and seas!

  Helen Hunt Jackson

  Sea, Names, Snow

  Helen Hunt Jackson (1877). “Verses”, p.188

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• The Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is a unique and biologically special place that should be preserved.

  Dan Lipinski

  Unique, Special, Wildlife

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• Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.

  Don Young

  Ice, Scotland, Agriculture

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• I can see now a vision emerging how Canada is going to profit in the future from our Arctic resources without destroying the environment on which it is all based.

  Brian Mulroney

  Vision, Canada, Environment

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• Remember in 1973 the same science chatter said that the coming Ice Age is going to occur, we're going to lose millions of people. And the politicians knew how to solve it, they just didn't have the courage to solve it; they were going to put coal dust on the Arctic.

  Don Young

  Courage, Dust, Ice

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• The undisturbed coastal plain is home to a wide variety of plants and animals and is the only wilderness sanctuary in North America that protects a complete range of the arctic ecosystem.

  Dan Lipinski

  Home, Animal, America

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• I cannot in good conscience vote for final passage of legislation that would pave the way to open the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil drilling.

  Jim Ramstad

  Oil, Finals, Way

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• For example, the Prime Minister earlier this year talked about the importance of the Arctic to our future. He's right. A hundred years from now, the strength of Canada is going to be coming from our resources in the Arctic.

  Brian Mulroney

  Years, Example, Canada

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• Opening the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge stands to not only increase the United States' oil reserves by nearly 50 percent, but it will create thousands of good U.S. jobs.

  Bob Ney

  Jobs, Oil, Wildlife

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• There is a cheap literature that speaks to us of the need of escape. It is true that when we travel we are in search of distance. But distance is not to be found. It melts away. And escape has never led anywhere. The moment a man finds that he must play the races, go the Arctic, or make war in order to feel himself alive, that man has begin to spin the strands that bind him to other men and to the world. But what wretched strands! A civilization that is really strong fills man to the brim, though he never stir. What are we worth when motionless, is the question.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Strong, War, Distance

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• The Arctic has a call that is compelling. The distant mountains [of the Brooks Range in Alaska] make one want to go on and on over the next ridge and over the one beyond. The call is that of a wilderness known only to a few...This last American wilderness must remain sacrosanct.

  William O. Douglas

  Alaska, Mountain, Next

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• We should not use special budget procedures to jam through legislation to drill in the Arctic Refuge. This topic is too important to the public to address it in such a back-door manner. We should be having a full, open discussion of the issue during an energy debate.

  Russ Feingold

  Issues, Doors, Special

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• This fight against drilling in the Arctic Refuge is a fight about our principles. Its about standing up for our environment, our families and our future, and I wont give up this fight.

  John F. Kerry

  Giving Up, Future, Fighting

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• You know, once something freezes, it's solid. That's the key to the arctic - they didn't fear the cold, they made use of it.

  Wade Davis

  Keys, Use, Cold

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• I don't know what compassionate conservative means. Does it mean cutting kids out of after school programs, Does it mean drilling in the arctic wildlife refuge? Does it mean sending kids to Iraq without body armor that's state of the art?

  John F. Kerry

  Art, School, Mean

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• The Arctic is the planet's air conditioner and it's starting to break down.

  Eban Goodstein

  Air, Breaking Down, Starting

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• Some have suggested that ideally there must be some international body that would treat areas like the Arctic as a global commerce, a bit like the way we treat the sea. It doesn't belong to any particular country, but to all of us, but I'm not sure some of the powerful are ready for that sort of solution.

  Kofi Annan

  Country, Powerful, Sea

  Source: www.global-leaders.tv

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• The most important thing for people to know about the governance of the Arctic is that we have a chance now to act to maintain the integrity of the system or to lose it. To lose it means that we will dismember the vital systems that make the Arctic work. It's not just a cost to the people who live there. It's a cost to all people everywhere.

  Sylvia Earle

  Integrity, Mean, People

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• Researchers at the Naval Postgraduate School have told us that the entire Arctic ice cap may totally disappear in summer in as little as five years if nothing is done to curb emissions of greenhouse gas pollution.

  Al Gore

  Summer, School, Years

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