If English Is Spoken In Heaven. God

. . . A Jostling Scrum Of Office Buildings So Mediocre That The Only Way You Ever Remember Them Is By The Frustration They Induce - Like A Basketball Team Standing Shoulder To Shoulder Between You And The Mona Lisa.

We Don't, In A Sensible World, Want To Hand On An Increasingly Dysfunctional World To Our Grandchildren.

Forests ... Are In Fact The World's Air-conditioning System-the Very Lungs Of The Planet-and Help To Store The Largest Body Of Freshwater On The Planet ... Essential To Produce Food For Our Planet's Growing Population. The Rainforests Of The World Also Provide The Livelihoods Of More Than A Billion Of The Poorest People On This Earth... In Simple Terms, The Rainforests, Which Encircle The World, Are Our Very Life-support System-and We Are On The Verge Of Switching It Off.

I Think It's Something That Dawns On You With The Most Ghastly, Inexorable Sense. I Didn't Suddenly Wake Up In My Pram One Day And Say 'yippee, I - ', You Know. But I Think It Just Dawns On You, You Know, Slowly, That People Are Interested In One, And Slowly You Get The Idea That You Have A Certain Duty And Responsibility.

The Whole Imposing Edifice Of Modern Medicine Is Like The Celebrated Tower Of Pisa - Slightly Off Balance.