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 ….

Clock measurement is not time itself. In fact, so opposed are they that one could argue the clock is not a synonym, but the opposite of time..

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

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

Clearly, many branches of science need an exquisite precision of timekeeping and the infinitesimal decimals of calibration, so space launches, for ex….

Language is wild - you can't fence it or tell it what to do - and it's the same with people. Even under the worst excesses of Stalinism or consumeris….

What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakeable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire a….

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part….

Cultures have long heard wisdom in non-human voices: Apollo, god of music, medicine and knowledge, came to Delphi in the form of a dolphin. But dolph….

All definitions of wilderness that exclude people seem to me to be false. African 'wilderness' areas are racist because indigenous people are being c….

Society understands the architecture of academia and knows there are relevant qualifications in different fields, and the media accepts the idea of s….

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 ….

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 some….

The silencing of the rainforests is a double deforestation, not only of trees but a deforestation of the mind's music, medicine and knowledge..

Being adequately informed is a democratic duty, just as the vote is a democratic right. A misinformed electorate, voting without knowledge, is not a ….

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 anarchi….

Time is found in the calibration of the individual to the timing of a collective endeavour, the social grace that less clock-bound societies must pra….

The clock, for all its precision in measurement, is a blunt instrument for the psyche and for society. Schedules can replace sensitivity to the mood ….

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

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

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