If people can't acknowledge the wisdom of indigenous cultures, then that's their loss..

In many traditions, the world was sung into being: Aboriginal Australians believe their ancestors did so. In Hindu and Buddhist thought, Om was the s….

I don't write quickly, and I don't want to..

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 ….

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….

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

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

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

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

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 ….

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

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

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….

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 ….

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….

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..

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

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….

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….

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