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I maintain that if there is such a thing as a true and honest environmentalist, it’s people like Slim and hopefully me, who have been caretakers of the land all our lives, along with the generations before us.

It is strange. I see all the privileges and greatness of the future. It already looks grand, beautiful. Tell them I went lovingly, trustfully, peacefully.

What life half gives a man, posterity gives entirely.

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

If you think in terms of a year, plant a seed; if in terms of ten years, plant trees; if in terms of 100 years, teach the people.

It is my aim, and every effort bent, that the sum and history of my life, which in the same sentence is my obit and epitaph too, shall be them both: He made the books and he died.

As far as I’m concerned, there won’t be a Beatles reunion as long as John Lennon remains dead.

If I’m such a legend, then why am I so lonely? Let me tell you, legends are all very well if you’ve got somebody around who loves you.

There have been several Duchesses of Westminster but there is only one Chanel!

Do well and you will have no need for ancestors.