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- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal…
- All our environmental problems become easier to solve with fewer people and harder - and ultimately impossible to solve - with ever more people.
- I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born.
- I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to promote myself. These days there's…
- It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us', 'tell us about the first…
- [W]hen we look at the graphs of rising ocean temperatures, rising carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and so on, we know that they are climbing…
- I find it far more awesome, wonderful, that creation; our appearance in the world; should be the culmination, or at least one of the latest…
- The reverse side of the coin in having this extraordinary ability to go anywhere, is that no one anywhere is remote any more.
- This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions of years of…
- Opponents say natural selection is not a theory supported by observation or experiment; that it is not based on fact; and that it cannot be…
- The more you go on, the less you need people standing between you and the animal and the camera waving their arms about.
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- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle