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

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.

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.

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

The woods are a place where children can go to think. Children gravitate towards these spaces. When I was a child it was nothing more than a scrubby little overhang under a rhododendron bush, but it was incredibly important to me.

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

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