“Ecologically speaking, a spilt tanker load is like sticking a safety pin into an elephant's foot. The planet barely notices. After the Exxon Valdez accident in Alaska the oil company spent billions tidying up the coastline, but it was a waste of money because the waves were cleaning up faster than Exxon could. Environmentalists can never accept the planet's ability to self-heal.” SelfScienceNatureNaturalAbilityCompanyAcceptingFeetPlanetsWasteSafetyWaveOilAccidentsBillionsHealFasterLoadElephantsCleaningPinsAlaskaEnvironmentalistOil CompaniesCleaning UpCoastlineSafety PinsTidying Up Author:Jeremy Clarkson
“We all know that small cars are good for us. But so is cod liver oil. And jogging.” KnowsCarOilLiverJogging Author:Jeremy Clarkson
“The fact is that Britain is the most warlike nation on earth. In the history of armed combat, we are the only democracy to have declared war on another democracy - England versus Finland in the second world war, in case you're interested - and we're always at the front of the queue when Johnny Foreigner gets a bit uppity. Who stood up to the Kaiser? Who stood up to Adolf? And let's not forget the Argies. What other country would have sent its fleet halfway round the world and lost 250 men to protect a flock of sheep and some oil that might or might not be there? We're still at it.” MenWorldStillsWarCountryFactsMightEarthAmericaLostNationsBitsForgetCasesDemocracyModernFrontsProtectEnglandRoundsOilWar Of The WorldsBritainCombatSheepWorld War IOther CountriesVersusModern WorldHalfwayForeignersFlocksSecond World WarStood UpQueuesFinland Author:Jeremy Clarkson
“Supercars are supposed to run over Arthur Scargill and then run over him again for good measure. They are designed to melt ice caps, kill the poor, poison the water table, destroy the ozone layer, decimate indigenous wildlife, recapture the Falkland Islands and turn the entire third world into a huge uninhabitable desert, all that before they nicked all the oil in the world.” WorldRunningTurnsWaterPoorHugeThirdsTablesOilIceDesertIslandsPoisonLayersIndigenousCapsWildlifeThird WorldArthurOzoneTop GearOzone LayerFalklands Author:Jeremy Clarkson
“I have a pathological terror of falling through ice. I nearly drowned once. I fell off a boat and got a cramp, and was rescued by an oil-rig diver, a great bear of a man who simply leant into the water and scooped me out with one finger.” MenFallWaterBearsFingersTerrorOilBoatIceCrampsRigs Author:Jeremy Clarkson
