Wild World Quotes by Simon Barnes

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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…
• 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 living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your…
• 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…
• There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love,…
• The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay…
• 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…
• Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is.

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