Simon Barnes Quotes
If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly.
What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the world we live in
Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure
Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty
The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition, of hope, of youth and the death of self.
A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve
The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed
There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world."
Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.
Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is.
Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it
We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world