Estimated World Population

Famous quotes containing the words estimated, world and/or population:

    “The glory of a great man ought always to be estimated by the means used to acquire it.”
    —François, Duc De La Rochefoucauld (1613–1680)

    “The alcoholic trance is not just a haze, as though the eyes were also unshaven. It is not a mere buzzing in the ears, a dizziness or disturbance of balance. One arrives in the garden again, at nursery time, when the gentle animals are fed and in all the world there are only toys.”
    —William Gass (b. 1924)

    “O for a man who is a man, and, as my neighbor says, has a bone in his back which you cannot pass your hand through! Our statistics are at fault: the population has been returned too large. How many men are there to a square thousand miles in this country? Hardly one.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)