Reading poetry and watching cricket were the sum of my world, and the two are not so far apart as many aesthetes might believe.
Choose your friends from people who you like what they do - even though you mightn't like what they say.
the end result of the adoption of permaculture strategies in any country or region will be to dramatically reduce the area of the agricultural environment needed by the households and the settlements of people, and to release much of the landscape for the sole use of wildlife and for re-occupation by endemic flora.
The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.
At least half of every city is wrong. From latitude 30 degrees to latitude 60, say, you've got to have the long axis of the house facing the sun. If the land is cut up into squares, that makes half of all houses wrong if they face the road. Even houses way in the country, and way off the road, face the bloody road. And from there, you just go wronger all the way.
Women spend the money of society on its goods.
People do things which I find quite amazing - things I would never have done and can't understand very well.
I believe that the responsibility of the winemaker is to take that fruit and get it into the bottle as the most natural and purest expression of that vineyard, of the grape varietal or blend, and of the vintage.
I think that my vampires in general were influenced by my being allowed to watch the Hammer vampire films. Vampire Circus, also shown as Circus of Fear, was one of those movies
Sooner or later you learn that you belong in the big leagues, and that makes you calm down
Move beyond the limited parameters that most human beings have and realize that there are thousands and millions of worlds beyond this world.