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Art is man's constant effort to create for himself a different order of reality from that which is given to him. — Chinua Achebe
Confronting a stadium audience, you can't see the whites of their eyes. It's just an amorphous mass of noise and, of course, you can't see… — Rowan Atkinson
Birds are the most popular group in the animal kingdom. We feed them and tame them and think we know them. And yet they inhabit… — David Attenborough
As far as I'm concerned, if there is a supreme being then He chose organic evolution as a way of bringing into existence the natural… — David Attenborough
Well, I'm having a good time. Which makes me feel guilty too. How very English. — David Attenborough
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions… — David Attenborough
I'm luckier than my grandfather, who didn't move more than five miles from the village in which he was born. — David Attenborough
I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens, never see a wild creature… — David Attenborough
It was regarded as a responsibility of the BBC to provide programs which have a broad spectrum of interest, and if there was a hole… — David Attenborough
Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a… — David Attenborough
Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that… — David Attenborough
They have not always elected the best leaders, particularly after a long period in which they have not used this facility of free election. You… — Chinua Achebe
We shouldn't be saying 'Save the planet'; we should be saying: 'Save viable conditions in which people can live.' That's what we're dealing with here. — Margaret Atwood
I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw. — Margaret Atwood
I think an artist, in my definition of that word, would not be someone who takes sides with the emperor against his powerless subjects. That's… — Chinua Achebe
Speculative fiction encompasses that which we could actually do. Sci-fi is that which we're probably not going to see. — Margaret Atwood
Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no… — Margaret Atwood
All fiction is about people, unless it's about rabbits pretending to be people. It's all essentially characters in action, which means characters moving through time… — Margaret Atwood
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more… — Margaret Atwood
We have to rethink our whole energy approach, which is hard to do because we're so dependent on oil, not just for fuel but also… — Margaret Atwood

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