Light is important to us humans. It influences our moods, our perceptions, our energy levels. A face glimpsed among trees, dappled by the shadows and the green-tinged light reflected from the forest, will seem quite different to the same face seen on a beach in hard, dry, sunlight, or in a darkening room at twilight, with the shadows of a venetian blind striped across it like a convict’s uniform.

Too much thinking, not enough feeling.

We'd thought that we were among the first humans to invade this basin, but humans had invaded everything, everywhere. They didn't have to walk into a place to invade it.

If you added up all the really significant episodes in your life they'd probably come to less than sixty minutes.

All these words, words like 'evil' and 'vicious', they meant nothing to Nature. Yes, evil was a human invention.

What's the Future? It's a blank sheet of paper, and we draw lines on it, but sometimes our hand is held, and the lines we draw aren't the lines we wanted.

Live as though you’ll die tomorrow, but farm as though you’ll live forever.