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

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.

Human language is lit with animal life: we play cats-cradle or have hare-brained ideas; we speak of badgering, or outfoxing someone; to squirrel something away and to ferret it out.

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.

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

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

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