Miriam Margolyes Quotes

I like L.A., but it's just too many people in the same business everywhere you go. You lose perspective.

Delhi came as a shock. There were so many people, and oh, the traffic.

I loathe crowds. I especially don't like cities. A city involves biomass. And biomass gets to me.

The causal chain of the deterioration (of the environment) is easily followed to its source. Too many cars, too many factories, too much detergent, too much pesticide, multiplying contrails, inadequate sewage treatment plants, too little water, too much carbon dioxide---all can be traced easily to too many people.

People talk about doom-laden scenarios happening in the future: they are happening in Africa now. You can see it perfectly clearly. Periodic famines are due to too many people living on land that can't sustain them.

I moved to Hawaii from Inglewood, New Jersey. I had planned on retiring there.

Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

We keep putting on programmes about famine in Ethiopia; that's what's happening. Too many people there. They can't support themselves - and it's not an inhuman thing to say. It's the case. Until humanity manages to sort itself out and get a coordinated view about the planet it's going to get worse and worse.

A billion could live off the earth; 6 billion living as we do is far too many, and you run out of planet in no time.

When you hear that China is overcrowded, that's an understatement. I was shocked at the number of people. Even in the rural areas. I was also shocked at the poverty and at the living conditions.

There are probably already too many people on the planet.

I've always thought that underpopulated countries in Africa are vastly underpolluted.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

There's too many people in the world.

Making the 'An Idiot Abroad' series, I was really dreading going to India; I thought I'd hate it. It was a nightmare, and I was really ill - just like everyone says.

We are in danger of destroying ourselves by our greed and stupidity. We cannot remain looking inwards at ourselves on a small and increasingly polluted and overcrowded planet.

When is population going to become an accepted part of the food debate? If it's fine to encourage people to think about halving their meat consumption, can we really not cope with a conversation about how many children we have?

Thicken Population.

Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase.... the human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive.

In Hong Kong there is agglomeration beyond my fondest imaginings. The Kowloon district claims a population density four times that of New York City.

You can spend an entire summer in Europe, and no one will ask you what you do for a living.

Earth was not built for six billion people all running around and being passionate about things. The world was built for about two million people foraging for roots and grubs.

I try to go to Marrakesh if there's a Bank Holiday weekend.

I can't retire without going to Spain.

That's what I love about New York. So many people crowded together, pushing against one another. And that's what I hate about New York. So many people crowded together, pushing against one another.