All the things that are part of your heritage make you British - that makes this country what it is. It's part of your history. And here, unlike America, it's still living history.

If you go out on the Appalachian Trail, you have to bring so much more equipment - a tent, sleeping bag - but if you go hiking in England, or Europe, generally, towns and villages are near enough together at the end of the day you can always go to a nice little inn and have a hot bath and something to drink.

Look at a globe and what you are seeing really is a snapshot of the continents as they have been for just one-tenth of 1 per cent of the earths history.

What is it about maps? I could look at them all day, earnestly studying the names of towns and villages I have never heard of and will never visit.

The whole of the global economy is based on supplying the cravings of two per cent of the world's population.

Everything seems to be designed for the benefit of the automobile and not the benefit of the human being.

I can't fix the world. If you want to make a difference in life, you have to direct your energies in a focused way.