About a billion years ago, long before the continents had separated to define the ancient oceans, or their own outlines had been determined, a small protuberance jutted out from the northwest corner of what would later become North America.

The arrogance of the artist is a very profound thing, and it fortifies you.

The chief character in this narrative is the Caribbean Sea, one of the world's most alluring bodies of water, a rare gem among the oceans, defined by the islan…

The really great writers are people like Emily Bronte who sit in a room and write out of their limited experience and unlimited imagination.

The world's great day is growing late, Yet strange these fields that we have planted So long with crops of love and hate.

We find no vestige of a beginning - no prospect of an end.

I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the g…