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  • No person who has not spent a period of his life in those 'stark and sullen solitudes that sentinel the Pole' will understand fully what trees and flowers, sun-flecked turf and running streams mean to the soul of a man

    Sir Ernest Henry Shackleton, Sir Tannatt William Edgeworth David (1909). “The Heart of the Antarctic: Being the Story of the British Antarctic Expedition 1907-1909”