Werner Herzog: Narrator
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Quotes
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Werner Herzog : The National Science Foundation had invited me to Antarctica even though I left no doubt that I would not come up with another film about penguins.
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Werner Herzog : The rules for the humans are do not disturb or hold up the penguin. Stand still and let him go on his way. And here, he's heading off into the interior of the vast continent. With 5,000 kilometers ahead of him, he's heading towards certain death.
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Werner Herzog : It occurred to me that in the time that we spent with him in the greenhouse possibly three or four languages have died. In our efforts to preserve endangered species we seem to overlook something equally important. To me, it's a sign of a deeply disturbed civilization, where tree-huggers and whale-huggers in their weirdness are acceptable, while no one embraces the last speakers of a language.
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Werner Herzog : Is there such a thing as insanity in a penguin?
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Werner Herzog : McMurdo has climate-controlled housing facilities, its own radio station, a bowling alley, and abominations such as an aerobic studio and yoga classes. It even has an ATM machine.
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Werner Herzog : I noticed that the divers in their routine were not speaking at all. To me, they were like priests preparing for mass. Under the ice the divers find themselves in a separate reality where space and time acquire a strange, new dimension. Those few who have experienced the world under the frozen sky often speak of it as going down into the cathedral.
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Werner Herzog : In the stupid trend of academia, it would be better to let the language die than to preserve it.
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Werner Herzog : For this and many other reasons, our presence on this planet does not seem to be sustainable. Our technical civilization makes us particularly vulnerable. There is talk all over the scientific community about climate change. Many of them agree, the end of human life on this earth is assured. Human life is part of an endless chain of catastrophies, the demise of the dinosaurs being just one of these events. We seem to be next.
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Werner Herzog : As if we had wanted to leave one remnant of our presence on this planet, they would find a frozen sturgeon mysteriously hidden away beneath the mathematically precise true south pole. They stash it back away into its frozen shrine for another eternity.
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Werner Herzog : He would neither go towards a fiding grounds at the edge of the ice nor return to the colony. Shortly afterwards we saw him heading straight towards a mountains, some seventy kilometers away. Dr Engly explained that even if we caught him and brought him back to the colony he would inmediately head right back for the mountains... but why?... .He is heading of into the interior of the vast continent. With five thousands kilometers ahead of him, he is heading towards certain death.
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Werner Herzog : For me, the best description of hunger is the description of bread. A poet said that once I think. For me, the best description of freedom is what you have in front of you. You're travelling a lot.
