"My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and take me to places as far from sheltered California and Japan as possible."

-- Pico Iyer

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“To get fifty people to a cocktail party in New York, you ask one hundred. In Hollywood, you invite twenty.”
“Saying "muff" to someone and trying to be romantic is incredibly difficult.”
“By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be too few in numbers to survive. There'll be a few over-visited parks, the coral reefs will be beaten up, grasslands overgrazed. Vast areas of the tropics that have lost their forests will have the same damn weeds, bushes and scrawny eucalyptus trees so that you don't know if you're in Africa or the Americas.”

Source : "Mass Extinction Not Inevitable". The Wired Interview, www.wired.com. March 20, 2004.
“I have thought briefly about getting caught in rock slides or falling from a rock face. If that happened, I would probably perish on the mountain in much the same way many of the big animals do. I would be long gone before anyone found me. My only wish would be that folks wouldn't spend a lot of time searching. When the time comes for a man to look his Maker in the eye, where better could the meeting be held than in the wilderness?”
“Intelligence is a moral category.”
“No one sees what is before his feet: they scan the tracks of heaven.”
“To live by one man's will becomes the cause of all misery.”
“Its obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. Its vanity of a grotesque kind to believe that mankind, and our carbon footprint, has more impact on the future of Earth than Nature, which bends our planet to its will, as it sees fit.”

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