I believe passionately that everyone has a particular God-given ability.
Fast food may appear to be cheap food and, in the literal sense it often is, but that is because huge social and environmental costs are being excluded from the calculations.
It seems to me self-evident that we cannot have capitalism without capital and, very importantly, that the ultimate source of all economic capital is Nature’s capital.
I think we’d be very foolish to expect that we can just import everything from somewhere else and imagine that that’s going to last for ever and ever and ever.
If you chuck away too many things, you end up discovering there was value in them.
Boy, the things I do for England.
The price of apparently cheap food is costing nothing less than the Earth.
It is baffling, I must say, that in our modern world we have such blind trust in science and technology that we all accept what science tells us about everything – until, that is, it comes to climate science.
This was one of those special occasions when I could actually feel the inner appreciation of the beauty of the moment passing like an electric current through the brush in my hand.
There is very good evidence indeed that one of the major reasons for this horror in Syria was a drought that lasted for about five or six years, which meant that huge numbers of people in the end had to leave the land.
I thought it was against the law for a woman to solicit.
When a man opens a car door for his wife, it’s either a new car or a new wife.
If you stay here much longer you’ll all be slitty-eyed.
A horse which stops dead just before a jump and thus propels its rider into a graceful arc provides a splendid excuse for general merriment.
So you are the people tearing down the Brazilian rainforest and breeding cattle.
You’re just a silly little Whitehall twit: you don’t trust me and I don’t trust you.
It’s a vast waste of space.
A gun is no more dangerous than a cricket bat in the hands of a madman.
Do you work in a strip club?
A few years ago, everybody was saying we must have more leisure, everyone’s working too much. Now everybody’s got more leisure time they’re complaining they’re unemployed. People don’t seem to make up their minds what they want.