Greenland Quotes

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

  Dorothy Parker

  Art, Two, Australia

  Quoted in John Keats, You Might As Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker (1970)

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• 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

  People, Soul, Inuit

  Annie Dillard (2010). “For the Time Being”, p.10, Vintage

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

  Elizabeth Gilbert

  Love, Leaving, Impossible

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.13, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• Saving Greenland is both a metaphor and a precondition for saving civilization. If its ice sheet melts, sea levels will rise 23 feet. Hundreds of coastal cities will be abandoned. The rice growing river deltas of Asia will be under water. There will be hundreds of millions of rising-sea refuges. The word that comes to mind is chaos. If we cannot mobilize to save the Greenland ice sheet; we probably cannot save civilization as we know it.

  Lester R. Brown

  Ice, Sea, Civilization

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• Si este hielo se derrite en Groenlandia puede cerrar la Corriente del Golfo.

  Jay Inslee

  Hockey, Ice, Currents

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• I once saw a lump of Greenland breaking off into the sea and moving south, which of course will affect the atmosphere and us generally, and it'll happen more and more.

  Ralph Steadman

  Moving, Sea, Atmosphere

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• Were I laid on Greenland's Coast, And in my Arms embrac'd my Lass; Warm amidst eternal Frost, Too soon the Half Year's Night would pass.

  John Gay

  Night, Years, Frost

  John Gay (1782). “The Beggar's Opera”, p.19

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• Like there's actually a need for Greenland. You can get ice at 7-Eleven.

  Steve Kluger

  Ice, Needs, Eleven

  Steve Kluger (2009). “My Most Excellent Year: A Novel of Love, Mary Poppins, and Fenway Park”, p.83, Penguin

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• Mientras mi mano está en la caña, mis pies en el timón y mis ojos en la brújula, esta conciencia, como un mensajero alado, sale a visitar las olas de abajo, probando el calor del agua, la velocidad del viento, el espesor de las nubes intermedias. Se dirige hacia el norte, a las costas glaciares de Groenlandia, sobre el horizonte, al borde del amanecer, hacia delante, a Irlanda, Inglaterra y el continente europeo, a través del espacio, a la luna y las estrellas, regresando siempre, sin quererlo, al deber mortal de comprobar que los miembros y los músculos han seguido su rutina mientras ella no estaba.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Stars, Eye, Moon

  "El espíritu de San Luis".

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• Desde las montañas heladas de Groenlandia,
  de las playas de coral de la India,
  Donde las fuentes soleadas de África
  Ruedan por su arena dorada;
  De muchos ríos antiguos,
  De muchas llanuras,
  Nos llaman para liberar
  Su tierra de la cadena del error.

  Reginald Heber

  Errores, Tierra, Ríos

  Felicia Dorothea Browne Hemans, Reginald Heber (1834). "The Poetical Works of Hemans, Heber and Pollok: Complete in One Volume", p.26

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• [A]s previous studies have concluded, the Antarctic and Greenland ice sheets are probably thickening rather than melting.

  Myron Ebell

  Ice, Melting, Study

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• That was another incredible thing: the opportunity to be in Greenland, a place I had read about in NatGeo a decade before. Suddenly I was staying there and hiking there, and we took a mini iceberg out of the water and chipped it up and used it as ice cubes and made cocktails with it. It's surreal.

  Adam Richman

  Opportunity, Ice, Hiking

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• We were filming in Greenland, and I treated my crew. It's 24 hours of pretty bright daylight there right now, and I always try to do something nice for my crew every trip or in every other city. So I greeted them with a midnight cruise, but it looked like two in the afternoon.

  Adam Richman

  Nice, Cities, Two

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• 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

  Running, Divorce, Doors

  Elizabeth Gilbert (2009). “Eat Pray Love: One Woman's Search for Everything”, p.13, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• The likelihood is that any English-speaking skier has more words for different types of snow than any inhabitant of Alaska or Greenland.

  Larry Trask

  Alaska, Snow, Different

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• I am involved in making measurements in polar oceans, and they are changing more than anything else. I think we have to be prepared for major changes associated with the melting of floating ice and the melting of the Greenland glacier.

  Walter Munk

  Ocean, Thinking, Ice

  "El legendario oceanógrafo Walter Munk: Reflexionando sobre setenta y seis años en la oceanografía y el futuro del planeta". Entrevista con Eliana Álvarez y Leah Goudsmit, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. 27 de octubre de 2015.

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• 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

  Soccer, Football, Holiday

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• For me the most important issue is climate change because it in some ways trumps every other issue. Everything else we care about falls by the wayside if the Greenland ice shelf falls into the sea. And if suddenly sea levels rise 21 feet, everything we hold near and dear ceases to exist.

  Moby

  Fall, Sea, Feet

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• 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 those ice shelves were stable on a kind of century-long time scale.

  Bill McKibben

  Eight, Ice, Data

  Fuente: theotherjournal.com

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• 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

  Ocean, Rocks, Ice

  Fuente: theotherjournal.com

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• Un cambio acumulado de menos de 2°C a finales de este siglo no causará ningún daño neto. De hecho, será positivo [...] las precipitaciones aumentarán ligeramente, los periodos vegetativos se alargarán, la capa de hielo de Groenlandia se derretirá muy lentamente, etc.

  Matt Ridley

  Hielo, Crecer, Aumentar

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• ...Was it because a lot of the heat went into melting Arctic sea ice or parts of Greenland and Antarctica, and other glaciers? Was it because the heat was buried in the ocean and sequestered, perhaps well below the surface?...Perhaps all of these things are going on?

  Kevin E. Trenberth

  Ocean, Ice, Sea

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• The close relationships between the abrupt ups and downs of solar activity and of temperature that I have identified occur locally in coastal Greenland; regionally in the Arctic Pacific and north Atlantic; and hemispherically for the whole circum-Arctic, suggesting that changes in solar activity drive Arctic and perhaps even global climate.

  Willie Soon

  Climate, Temperature, Arctic

  "¡Es el Sol, estúpido!: Nuevas pruebas directas demuestran que los cambios en la actividad solar influyen en el clima". Ensayo de Willie Soon, 9 de marzo de 2009.

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• ...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

  Believe, Ocean, Deep Water

  Edward Forbes (1859). “The Natural History of the European Seas...”, p.56

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