A wild creature is not subject to any will except its own

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

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.

The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood of a moment, clock time can ride roughshod over the emotions of individuals.

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

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time.