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- Nov 07, 2020
World Quotes
Quotes on the world and our place in it.
These quotes look at the world from different angles - one traces a common phrase back to ancient religion, another describes feeling atomized after moving to a new city. A few recall novels depicting a world with tighter social fabric, where people actually knew each other. Related reading: Great Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
People must feel that the natural world is important and valuable and beautiful and wonderful and an amazement and a pleasure.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
- Natural
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
An understanding of the natural world and what's in it is a source of not only a great curiosity but great fulfillment.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 world... which doesn't seem to me to be necessarily blasphemous at all.
- Different Kinds
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.
- Eyes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 as a bird?
- Birds
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- Nov 07, 2020
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 a world which is really rather mysterious.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
The process of making natural history films is to try to prevent the animal knowing you are there, so you get glimpses of a non-human world, and that is a transporting thing.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's coming home to roost over the next 50 years or so. It's not just climate change; it's sheer space, places to grow food for this enormous horde. Either we limit our population growth or the natural world will do it for us, and the natural world is doing it for us right now.
- Looking
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.
- Library
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- Nov 07, 2020
London has fine museums, the British Library is one of the greatest library institutions in the world... It's got everything you want, really.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
Theologically, the creation of chocolate demonstrates both the unity and the diversity of humanity. Wherever you taste it, in every country of the world, it is immediately recognizable. Other things, in every cuisine, are just food, but chocolate is chocolate.
- Done
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- Nov 07, 2020
We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.
- Money
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- Nov 07, 2020