Mark Carwardine famous quotes

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To have a huge, friendly whale willingly approach your boat and look you straight in the eye is without doubt one of the most extraordinary experiences on the planet.
-- Mark Carwardine

#Eye #Whales #Doubt
The Galapagos Islands are probably the most famous wildlife-watching destination in the world. And no wonder - it's almost impossible to exaggerate the sheer spectacle of the place that provided inspiration for Charles Darwin's ground-breaking theory of natural selection.
-- Mark Carwardine

#Inspiration #Islands #World
There is something about dolphins. It is difficult to put into words...
-- Mark Carwardine

#Dolphins #Difficult
Nothing speaks louder than an evocative photograph that stirs the imagination, tugs at the heart strings and engages the mind.
-- Mark Carwardine

#Heart #Imagination #Mind
I can't write unless I'm overlooking water.
-- Mark Carwardine

#Writing #Water #Overlooking
China is responsible for a lot of the major conservation issues we're facing. It's the main market for rhino horn. Tigers are being killed for tiger bone wine. They're driving the tropical timber trade and illegal logging in Indonesia, and the trade in tropical reef fish.
-- Mark Carwardine

#Wine #Issues #Rhinos
The scary thing is that in my lifetime, 95 per cent of the world's rhinos have been killed.
-- Mark Carwardine

#Rhinos #Scary #World

I don't like it when people don't look me dead in the eye. I move my head around trying to catch their eye.
Manâ€™s usurpation over nature is an egotism that will destroy human as well as whale kingdoms. â€¦ Academies should return to wisdom study in tree groves rather than robot study in plastic cells
Many people cycle or swim to keep trim. But if swimming is so good for the figure, how do you explain whales?
But I'll never see any of those fish," said Maxie."Or those whales. Or any lions or tigers. I'm never going to set foot in a rain forest now, am I? I won't even be able to watch old DVD's about them without electricity. What does the future hold? It's like going back to the middle ages. Nobody knowing what was going on beyond their front doorstep. All I'll ever know is this. This little bit of London.
Culture, which by definition serves no purpose, has now found a role as the consort of business. Right off the bat we have a beached whale, since there is nothing that disdains culture as much as business does. ... In fact, 'corporate culture' is nothing more than the crystallization of the stupidity of a group of people at a given moment.
Servile doubt argues an impotence of mind, that says we fear because we dare not meet misfortunes.
As the music played over the speakers and the waterfall in the pool filled the silence around us, I knew that without a doubt I had just been ruined.
Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.
The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it
As soon as by one's own propaganda even a glimpse of right on the other side is admitted, the cause for doubting one's own right is laid.

Mark Carwardine famous quotes

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