Simon Barnes Quotes

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• Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where…
• Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake. A win without…
• A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling…
• We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world
• Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure
• Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it
• What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the…
• There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the…
• The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes…
• Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty
• The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed
• Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is.
• Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in the last couple…
• There are three great international team sports in Australia: cricket, rugby (two codes), and Pom-bashing. But the greatest of these is the last, and it…
• An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a masterpiece and it secured…

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