The Silencing Of The Rainforests Is A

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 Little Overhang Under A Rhododendron Bush, But It Was Incredibly Important To Me.

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 Practise.

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.

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 Of A Moment, Clock Time Can Ride Roughshod Over The Emotions Of Individuals.

The Losses Of The Natural World Are Our Loss, Their Silence Silences Something Within The Human Mind.