Greenland – Quotes

The only thing more

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. Elizabeth Gilbert

The only thing more unthinkable than leaving was staying; the only thing more impossible than staying was leaving. I didn’t want to destroy anything or anybody. I just wanted to slip quietly out the back door, without causing any fuss or consequences, and then not stop running until I reached Greenland. Elizabeth Gilbert

…It is a very

…It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately deep water …. That these littoral mollusks indicate by their presence on both sides of the Atlantic, some ancient continuity or contiguity of coast-line is what I firmly believe. Edward Forbes

Sometimes I\’d like to

Sometimes I’d like to have a conversation with a friend in a restaurant without feeling I’m being watched. At this rate I will have to go on holiday to Greenland. But maybe the Eskimos would know me. Fernando Torres

I was the toast

I was the toast of two continents: Greenland and Australia. Dorothy Parker

While my hand is

While my hand is on the stick, my feet on the rudder, and my eyes on the compass, this consciousness, like a winged messenger, goes out to visit the waves below, testing the warmth of water, the speed of wind, the thickness of intervening clouds. It goes north to the glacial coasts of Greenland, over … Read more

Permafrost in the soil

Permafrost in the soil [is melting], in the boreal and arctic areas in the world, and, probably even more alarming in the last six or eight months, the data on what is happening to the ice shelves in Greenland and the west Antarctic has begun to cause people to radically reassess the earlier conviction that … Read more

Ice in the West

Ice in the West Antarctic and over Greenland, i.e., ice that’s over a rock at the moment, that will raise the level of the sea as it slides into the ocean, putting at risk everyone and everything that lives on the coasts, and that includes an enormous percentage of the world’s people. Bill McKibben

According to Inuit culture

According to Inuit culture in Greenland, a person possesses six or seven souls. The souls take the form of tiny people scattered throughout the body. Annie Dillard

From Greenland’s icy mountains, From

From Greenland’s icy mountains, From India’s coral strand, Where Afric’s sunny fountains Roll down their golden sand; From many an ancient river, From many a palmy plain, They call us to deliver Their land from error’s chain. Reginald Heber