"In motivating people to love and defend the natural world, an ounce of hope is worth a ton of despair"

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Source : "For more wonder, rewild the world". TED Talk, www.ted.com. July 2013.

George Monbiot

#People Quotes #Despair Quotes #World Quotes

“Truly there is nothing in the world so blessed or so sweet as the heritage of children.”
“75% of what happens to Paul Gascoigne in his life is fiction..”
“I've always loved Mary Shelley's Frankenstein. There's this wonderful chapter in which we get a first-person account of the monster's first impressions of the world, being in the woods and taking things in. We're seeing the world as if for the first time. That's just fascinating.”
“Yeah, that test says he's dumb as a fence post, but when he hits he looks like Einstein to me.”
“I wanted to make a human monster. His name is Coffin Baby. The idea is based on a group of people from Pasadena whose names I can't mention. His mother died and during the funeral, this baby came out of her in the coffin”
“The transistor was a small plastic unit that would take us from a world of static bricks piled on top of each other to a world where everything was interactive.”
“If I run towards you, you should be running towards me!”
“Kofi Annan described World Summit on the Information Society as the first summit to deal primarily with an opportunity. The range of issues and potential opportunities that might be included in the Information Society is enormous. Compromise texts are very poor at addressing these in any meaningful way, and many governments see little point in trying.”

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