Glaciers Quotations

Glaciers are almost gone from Glacier National Park

Before the reader turns his back upon the Grand Basin once for all, I should like to put a name upon the glacier it contains - since it is the fashion to name glaciers.

The situation of Leh is a grand one, the great Kailas range, with its glaciers and snowfields, rising just behind it to the north, its passes alone reaching an altitude of nearly 18,000 feet; while to the south, across a gravelly descent and the Indus Valley, rise great red ranges dominated by snow-peaks exceeding 21,000 feet in altitude.

We now know that we cannot continue to put ever-increasing amounts of CO2 into the atmosphere. Actions have consequences. In fact, the consequences of past actions are already in the pipeline. Global temperatures are rising. Glaciers are melting. Sea levels are rising. Extreme weather events are multiplying.

You could engineer a human to survive the greenhouse effect because you think that's what's going to happen, and then all of a sudden the glaciers are creeping down on you.

I tend to pick objectives that I feel are safe because I know that, in the moment, I always go for it. I have some rules for myself, though: Look for the rock faces without a lot of loose rock. Always rope up on glaciers where there is even a slight chance of falling into a crevasse. No pure free soloing. Never climb below hanging glaciers.

Glaciers are delicate and individual things, like humans. Instability is built into them.

Glaciers are slow-moving, melting and receding. As they move ... remains often times will melt out and become exposed.

What we found was that the glaciers were formed from snow brought from the polar regions.

Some of the glaciers are accelerating, and that has happened mostly in the last five, at most ten, years. There are significant changes going on.

I talked to them about the glaciers before and they weren't so fussed about it because they said they could just work around them and they are retreating anyhow.

When I was 23, I went to Alaska by myself into the glaciers of the coast range and climbed a mountain by myself. It was incredibly reckless, incredibly stupid. But I was lucky. And I survived, and I came back to tell my story.

There are very obvious features we've observed that indicate in the last 20 years the climate has been changing. Just looking at the changes in the glaciers in 20 years, the glaciers on the coastlines have been reduced in volumes.

We are seeing signs of significant change in the Arctic with mountain glaciers retreating, snow cover disappearing, the Greenland ice sheet thinning and Arctic sea ice cover declining. There is no time to lose - we need to take drastic action now to combat climate change.

There is a big temperature contrast between the warm ocean water and the cold ice, and melting occurs at a very rapid rate. The melting reduces the friction that holds these glaciers back, allowing them to accelerate.

A glacier will frequently move forward one foot while retreating three feet... Which reminds me a lot of myself!

If, when you talk to people, they keep backing away from you, it's because you're TOO CLOSE, alright? SO DON'T KEEP ADVANCING ON THEM LIKE A HUMAN GLACIER.

Is there climate change? I live in the shadow of some of the greatest climate change the world has ever seen. It's called the Rocky Mountains. When the glaciers went back.

As the ice shelves are disintegrating, the glaciers that are feeding them from the land are surging forward.

Delta is responding to strong passenger demand for convenient service to some of the country's most popular summer leisure markets like Anchorage, Bangor and Traverse City. Interest in visiting the breathtaking glaciers of Alaska, the Acadia National Park and Bar Harbor area of Bangor and the beaches and hiking and biking trails of Traverse City increases in the summer months and we are pleased to be offering our customers throughout the country easy one-stop connection opportunities through our hubs.

The only thing we can think of is they were dumped here by the glaciers when the continental ice sheet melted away in this area 11,000 years ago.

This air we breathe is precious, and the glaciers helped me understand that and stay focused on that.

The behavior of the glaciers that dump ice into the sea is the most important aspect of understanding how an ice sheet will evolve in a changing climate. It takes a long time to build and melt an ice sheet, but glaciers can react quickly to temperature changes.

It takes a long time to build and melt an ice sheet, but glaciers can react quickly to temperature changes.

His sister liked to think of herself as Lord Tywin with teats, but she was wrong. Their father had been as relentless and implacable as a glacier, where Cercei was all wildfire, especially when thwarted.

The glaciers at Glacier Bay are higher and bigger, and you can see more wildlife than at Tracy Arm. The only difference is that not many cruise lines go to Tracy Arm.

Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine.

It's almost universal that all glaciers are retreating. The signs of retreat are dramatic and accelerating.

We don't think these are just bursts. We haven't seen any of these glaciers coming back to normal.

Writing is like the life of a glacier; one eternal grind.

No synonym for God is so perfect as Beauty.

If the world was an etch-a-sketch, glaciers are the big shake.

If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.

I had an outfit that was designed for minus 30 degrees, so I had to work with costume to strap ice packs all over me because I was boiling, even out on the glacier. I was constantly trying to unzip it and take off the hat. I was just sweating. I found it very hot.

What's the worst that can happen? A tidal wave? Glaciers with guns?

Compare the torrent and the glacier. Both get where they are going.

What he meant, of course, was that there would always be wars, that they were as easy to stop as glaciers. I believe that, too. And even if wars didn't keep coming like glaciers, there would still be plain old death.

A man who keeps company with glaciers comes to feel tolerably insignificant by and by.

The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the teacup opens A lane to the land of the dead.