Douglas Adams Quotes

There Is No "tropical Island Paradise" I Know Of Which Remotely Matches Up To The Fantasy Ideal That Such A Phrase Is Meant To Conjure Up, Or Even To What We Find Described In Holiday Brochures. It's Natural To Put This Down To The Discrepancy We Are All Used To Finding Between What Advertisers Promise And What The Real World Delivers. It Doesn't Surprise Us Much Any More. So It Can Come As A Shock To Realise That The World We Hear Described By Travellers Of Previous Centuries (or Even Previous Decades) And Biologists Of Today Really Did Exist. The State It's In Now Is Only The Result Of What We've Done To It, And The Mildness Of The Disappointment We Feel When We Arrive Somewhere And Find That It's A Bit Tatty Is Only A Measure Of How Far Our Own Expectations Have Been Degraded And How Little We Understand What We've Lost. The People Who Do Understand What We've Lost Are The Ones Who Are Rushing Around In A Frenzy Trying To Save The Bits That Are Left.

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