The Terrors of Ice and Darkness Quotes

“Whoever will truly admire nature should observe her in her extremes. In the tropics one finds her in her fullest splendor and lushness, flaunting her Sunday clothes, but admiration too easily leads one to overlook the heart. At the poles she is naked, allowing the ground internal structure to be revealed all the more clearly. In the tropics the eye loses itself in the multiplicity of details to be admired. But here all lack of detail causes the eye to be directed at the overwhelming whole, at her productive powers in the absence of things produced. Here's one attention, freed of preoccupation and unmoved by particulars, can be concentrated on nature's powers." (Carl Weyprecht)”
― Christoph Ransmayr, The Terrors of Ice and Darkness