Gardening has just sort of grown on me. I find it therapeutic. And I like smelly things.

I have to keep up with the scientific literature as part of my job but increasingly I found myself reading things that weren't really relevant to my academic work but were relevant to gardening.

As children as we learn what things are we are slowly learning to dismiss them visually. As adults entirely submerged in words and concepts we spend almost all of our time thinking and worrying about the past and the future hardly ever looking at or engaging with the world visually.

I'm always interested in looking forward toward the future. Carving out new ways of looking at things.

I don't think things through very often - I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out.

Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.

I have a mantra in my head that there will always be another meal. I can put my fork down knowing there will be good things in my future!

If the right people do the right things we can walk we can have a future. But if people don't put time into it to make it run in a right way I don't think your team will work.

As much as we all talk about the future and how so many things are merging there is a simplicity that is crucial.

What's interesting about books that take place in the future even twenty years in the future is that many of them are black or white: It's either a utopia or it's misery. The real truth is that there's going to be both things in any future just like there is now.