If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss.

Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a true democracy.

Just because Galileo was a heretic doesn't make every heretic a Galileo.

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to.

We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud.

In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the seed syllable that created the world.

All humans are essentially wild creatures and hate confinement. We need what is wild, and we thrill to it, our wildness bubbling over with an anarchic joie de vivre. We glint when the wild light shines. The more suffocatingly enclosed we are - tamed by television, controlled by mortgages and bureaucracy - the louder our wild genes scream in aggression, anger and depression.