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"Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve."
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"I've said this over and over, but I'll say it a million more times - I'm concerned more about the death of a bee than I am about terrorism. Because we're losing hives and bees by the millions because of such strong pesticides."
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"I'm a little different from all those conservation types."
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"Certain things, they should stay the way they are. You ought to be able to stick them in one of those big glass cases and just leave them alone."
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"An awful lot of England is slowly eroding, in ways that I find really distressing, and an awful lot of it is the hedgerows... We're reaching the point where a lot of the English countryside looks just like Iowa - just kind of open space."
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"I believe sustainable use is the greatest propaganda in wildlife conservation at the moment."
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"Now, the downside to conservation is that so much is done for the public, which almost always mars the environment that one wanted to conserve."
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"Every cent we earn from Crocodile Hunter goes straight back into conservation. Every single cent."
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"The Sierra Club is a very good and a very powerful force for conservation and, as a matter of fact, has grown faster since I left than it was growing while I was there! It must be doing something right."
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"We have vastly increased the amount of funding that is available for conservation partnerships."
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"If we can get kids talking about conservation and doing it, they can have a great influence on their parents by lecturing them and pointing the finger."
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"But inspiration? - That's when you come home from abroad and are asked: Well, have you found inspiration? - and fortunately you haven't. But the impressions sink in, of course, and may emerge later: None of us has invented the house; that was done many thousands of years ago."
Home
"In a way, the sense of quality has improved, the status symbol of the small things is gone, and it is acceptable to use stainless steel, even if the neighbour uses silver."
Quality
"With a painter or a sculptor, one cannot begin to alter his works, but an architect has to put up with anything, because he makes utility objects - the building is there to be used, and times change."
Change
"In addressing a task, one almost always has several possible options, sometimes only a few, and they may all be practical and functional. But they lack the aesthetic aspect that raises it to architecture."
Architecture
"I don't see that any buildings should be excluded from the term architecture, as long as they are done properly."
Architecture
"And when an architect has designed a house with large windows, which is a necessity today in order to pull the daylight into these very deep houses, then curtains come to play a big role in architecture."
Architecture
"There is always a point when one senses one's lack of skill, the doubt."
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"You will soon find that I am a bit obsessive about my work. And that is a little sad, one often feels strangely restricted, not finding time to simmer, although one actually has many interests."
Time
"Almost every time I make a building, some people will condemn it straight to Hell."
Time
"Furniture manufacturing in plastics requires very costly machinery, which the Danish market is not big enough to justify. Or so they say. But show me a plastics manufacturer who dares to take on the experiment."
Manufacturing
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