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

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 consumerism, the human spirit will still express itself.

Children say they are unhappy in every language they have. They say it in silence, and they say it in riots.

We are animal in our blood and in our skin. We were not born for pavements and escalators but for thunder and mud.

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 something away and to ferret it out.

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

Singing with others is an unmediated, shared experience as each person feels the same music reverberating in their individual bodies. Singing is part of our humanity; it is embodied empathy.

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.

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

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

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

Walker's Law: There are few things made harder in this world by having money.

It's not just we Italians who are caught up in the difficulty.

Vision without integrity is not mission - it's manipulation.

I think the immigration thing has really stuck to Marco Rubio. He was on the wrong side of what's emerged as probably the most important issue for the conservative base.

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

It is not so difficult to win love as to keep it!

Everything in Formula 1 has been sterilised now, the whole thing is controlled too much.

Nothing is more real than nothing.

The rite of passage of learning to build a fire that will burn all night with one match is not an insignificant one in my husband’s family, and I grew up camping and backpacking. I love to camp.

What's brave, what's noble, let's do it after the Roman fashion.