My mother was a great bringer-up of children. My memories are of a sense of security and comfort.
Graham SwiftAll nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.
Graham SwiftWhat does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face instead with - no future at all?
Graham SwiftThat's the way it is: life inculdes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.
Graham SwiftThereโs this thing called progress. But it doesnโt progress. It doesnโt go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. Itโs progress if you can stop the world slipping away. My humble model for progress I the reclamation of land. Which is repeatedly, never-ending retrieving what it lost. A dogged and vigilant business. A dull yet valuable business. A hard, inglorious business. But you shouldnโt go mistaking the reclamation of land for the building of empires.
Graham Swift