"We should have the sense to leave just one place alone..."

Sir Peter Scott (1909 - 1989)

co-founder of WWF (World Wide Fund for Nature)

and son of Antarctic explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott, C.V.O., R.N.

(1868 - 1912)

A few days before the death of Captain Scott in his tent in the Antarctic on 29 March 1912, he wrote the following to his wife about his son, Peter:

"Make the boy interested in Natural History. It is better than games. They encourage it at some schools......Above all he must guard, and you must guard him, against indolence. Make him a strenuous man; I had to force myself into being strenuous as you know, had always an inclination to be idle."