The comfort zone is always the most desirable place to be. But in settling for comfort, there is a price to pay and it comes in the death of ambition….

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

There was an advert I rather liked. Devastated woman: "I've just seen the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse!" Husband: "Never mind, love, it's not the ….

Sport is something that does not matter, but is performed as if it did. In that contradiction lies its beauty.

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 wher….

What politician ever thinks beyond 4 or 5 years? But such thinking is hopelessly inadequate for the big questions that involve the fabric of the worl….

Never mind, love, it's not the end of the world..

Everybody loves birdsong. It's a human need... the sound of birds gives a deep, if sometimes almost unnoticed, pleasure.

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

The traditional dress of the Australian cricketer is the baggy green cap on the head and the chip on the shoulder. Both are ritualistically assumed.

Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in the last couple of centuries….

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 ….

The combination of an out-of-control tabloid press and a readership that thrills to the destruction of the England head coach is something no other c….

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

An innings of neurotic violence, of eccentric watchfulness, of brainless impetuosity and incontinent savagery - it was an extraordinary innings, a ma….

Sven must have neglected to pay tribute to one of those strict Nordic gods. But instead of cursing Eriksson himself, Thor has done a still crueller t….

Behind every footballing tough guy there lurks a mincing aesthete with a love of art for art's sake, football for football's sake. A win without art ….

There are three great international team sports in Australia: cricket, rugby (two codes), and Pom-bashing. But the greatest of these is the last, and….

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

We can only truly be civilised people when we have regular and meaningful contact with the wild world.