I did grow up in Kenosha, Wisconsin, around a lot of my mom's family. I had a lot of cousins and aunts and uncles around me, and my sisters and my brother. Probably the most formative part of it was that we grew up on the edge of a forest. It wasn't a big forest, but it was enough. When you're a kid, it feels gigantic.
A fossil is so powerful. It's moving. This is my ancestor. The naturalist is moved by the fossil... not the cross.
We have an impact on nature, and nature has an impact on us.
Over the years, I've lived in a variety of places, including America, but I was born and raised in the Lake District, in Cumbria. Growing up in that rural, sodden, mountainous county has shaped my brain, perhaps even my temperament.
Landscape affects you.
Our new technologies, combined with our numbers, have made us, collectively, a force of nature
I want to look into the dark spaces in people's souls. At what happens to us when we go to the mountains.
People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.
The land gets inside of us; and we must decide one way or another what this means, what we will do about it.
