A garden is a human creation. It has to be thought of first, wished into being, planned for like a child.
Deep play precedes deep work.
We are entering a new phase in human history - one in which fewer and fewer workers will be needed to produce the goods and services for the global population.
When we seed millions of acres of land with these plants, what happens to foraging birds, to insects, to microbes, to the other animals, when they come in contact and digest plants that are producing materials ranging from plastics to vaccines to pharmaceutical products?
What's really clear to all of us in the business community is that GDP is slowing everywhere. And the reason is productivity has been declining now for 15 or 20 years all over the world. So we've got very high unemployment, and it's structural. And it's compounded by real-time climate change - that's really a game changer.
Many of the genetically modified foods will be safe, I'm sure. Will most of them be safe? Nobody knows.
James Watt patented his steam engine on the eve of the American Revolution, consummating a relationship between coal and the new Promethean spirit of the age, and humanity made its first tentative steps into an industrial way of life that would, over the next two centuries, forever change the world.
A lot of women have come to understand that you can't just show up and say I'm unhappy, you have to then go out and do something.
I get to work with incredibly talented young filmmakers and students, and their attitudes and relationship with film is still so pure. That re-inspires me and reminds me why I got into it and what I love about film, and allows me a little reprieve from the business side of it. And it rekindles my love of film.
It's easier and more cost effective to maintain good health, than to regain it once it's lost.
Muses work all day long and then at night get together and dance.