Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.

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

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

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

Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for example, are not scheduled for leap-second dates. But society as a whole neither needs that obsessive time measurement nor is well served by it.

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being cleared out of them so white people can go on holiday there.