The Patriarch Quotes

“the danger of depending on importing energy from Russia. Greens should support fracking, she added, since power stations fuelled by natural gas produced less than half the emissions of those fuelled by coal.”
― Martin Walker, The Dying Season: A Bruno Courrèges Investigation

“food when it can prevent famines and ensure that children even in the poorest countries can get the right vitamins in their diet. Many of them don’t even want us to eat meat.’ Madeleine gave a thoughtful and balanced assessment of the benefits and problems of fracking, the cost to France of importing natural gas and”
― Martin Walker, The Dying Season: A Bruno Courrèges Investigation

“But they are becoming an irrelevant and querulous sect, opposed to everything but wind and solar farms with no thought of what we do when the wind doesn’t blow and the sun doesn’t shine. They are against nuclear power, against exploring for natural gas, against coal and oil, against foie gras and even against the use of genetic science in”
― Martin Walker, The Dying Season: A Bruno Courrèges Investigation

“It’s never the same, drinking with your father,” said Yevgeny and poured himself another vodka. “It’s like kissing your sister; your heart isn’t in it.”
― Martin Walker, The Patriarch

“MAN DOES WHAT HE CAN, CHANCE DOES WHAT IT WILL.”
― Martin Walker, The Patriarch