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Top 15 Simon Barnes Quotes (2025 Update)

Simon Barnes Quote: “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.”

1. “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.”

— Simon Barnes

Simon Barnes Quote: “Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is.”

2. “Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is.”

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Simon Barnes Quote: “Never mind, love, it’s not the end of the world.”

3. “Never mind, love, it’s not the end of the world.”

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Simon Barnes Quote: “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.””

4. “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.””

— Simon Barnes

Simon Barnes Quote: “If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly.”

5. “If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly.”

— Simon Barnes

Simon Barnes Quote: “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.”

6. “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.”

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Simon Barnes Quote: “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.”

7. “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.”

— Simon Barnes

Simon Barnes Quote: “Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty.”

8. “Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty.”

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Simon Barnes Quote: “I don’t go birdwatching. I am birdwatching. Birdwatching is a state of being, not an activity. It doesn’t depend on place, on equipment, on specific purpose, like, say, fishing. It is not a matter of organic trainspotting; it is about life and it is about living.”

9. “I don’t go birdwatching. I am birdwatching. Birdwatching is a state of being, not an activity. It doesn’t depend on place, on equipment, on specific purpose, like, say, fishing. It is not a matter of organic trainspotting; it is about life and it is about living.”

— Simon Barnes

Simon Barnes Quote: “Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another – desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where they are, desperate that things get no worse, desperate to arrest the slide.”

10. “Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another – desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where they are, desperate that things get no worse, desperate to arrest the slide.”

— Simon Barnes

Simon Barnes Quote: “It is a truism that no row is ever about what it is about.”

11. “It is a truism that no row is ever about what it is about.”

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Simon Barnes Quote: “Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.”

12. “Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.”

— Simon Barnes

Simon Barnes Quote: “We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world.”

13. “We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world.”

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Simon Barnes Quote: “We share a common ancestor with chimps that is not shared by mandrills, we share a common ancestor with mandrills that is not shared by bushbabies, and on and on and on, to the ancestor we share with nematode worms that is not shared with oak trees.”

14. “We share a common ancestor with chimps that is not shared by mandrills, we share a common ancestor with mandrills that is not shared by bushbabies, and on and on and on, to the ancestor we share with nematode worms that is not shared with oak trees.”

— Simon Barnes

Simon Barnes Quote: “Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in the last couple of centuries did we invent industry. We are a species that has spent 99 per cent of its history as hunter-gatherers. We haven’t had time for our unconscious minds and our unconscious needs to have changed. If you like, our souls have not changed, and this is true whether or not we believe that we have them.”

15. “Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in the last couple of centuries did we invent industry. We are a species that has spent 99 per cent of its history as hunter-gatherers. We haven’t had time for our unconscious minds and our unconscious needs to have changed. If you like, our souls have not changed, and this is true whether or not we believe that we have them.”

— Simon Barnes

Simon Barnes Quote: “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.”

16. “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.”

— Simon Barnes

Simon Barnes Quote: “Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it.”

17. “Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it.”

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Simon Barnes Quote: “We’re not just losing the wild world. We’re forgetting it. We’re no longer noticing it. We’ve lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. We’re beginning to think it’s not really our business. We’re beginning to act as if it’s not there any more.”

18. “We’re not just losing the wild world. We’re forgetting it. We’re no longer noticing it. We’ve lost the habit of looking and seeing and listening and hearing. We’re beginning to think it’s not really our business. We’re beginning to act as if it’s not there any more.”

— Simon Barnes

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