A functional media is as important to democratic freedom as voting.

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

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.

As a writer you have a duty to be a messenger.

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

I'm not against entertainment: if someone wants to read nonsense-mongers, let them, but I resent the appearance of parity between two articles on an issue as serious as climate change when one article is actually gibberish masked in pseudoscience and the other is well informed and accurate.

The losses of the natural world are our loss, their silence silences something within the human mind.