Geography is just physics slowed down, with a couple of trees stuck in it.

There is always time for another last minute

The entire universe has been neatly divided into things to (a) mate with, (b) eat, (c) run away from, and (d) rocks.

Some things are fairly obvious when it's a seven-foot skeleton with a scythe telling you them.

People look down on stuff like geography and meteorology, and not only because they're standing on one and being soaked by the other. They don't look quite like real science. But geography is only physics slowed down and with a few trees stuck on it, and meteorology is full of excitingly fashionable chaos and complexity. And summer isn't a time. It's a place as well. Summer is a moving creature and likes to go south for the winter.

Few things are hidden from a quiet child with good eyesight.

Personal’s not the same as important. People just think it is.