It is a truism that no row is ever about what it is about.

A living countryside is not a luxury but a necessity for the human population; if you let conservation go hang until your pockets are jingling there will be a lot less to conserve

Nature is not horrible. Nature is not wonderful. Nature is not cruel. Nature is not beautiful. Nature only is.

If you are old and you wish to be young again, if only for a moment, try and identify a dragonfly.

Football is based on desperation. All clubs are desperate in one form or another - desperate to succeed, desperate to survive, desperate to stay where they are, desperate that things get no worse, desperate to arrest the slide.

Penalties are not football. They are not even as television people keep telling us, great drama. They are cheap melodrama.

Acquiring the trick of listening to birds will teach you how better to enjoy life and how better to endure it