Wonder jy soms waarom sommige graanlande gebrand word? Of waarom party graanlande vol stoppels staan en ander nie?

The purple heron, oh the purple heron! The goshawk that I didn't see. Bustard, larks and little grebes. Flamingos from a dream of me...

No one would knowingly give their children drugs. Then why do people knowingly consume newspapers?

Die Colombiaanse skrywer Gabriel García Márquez is veral bekend vir sy boek One Hundred Years of Solitude, met daardie lieflike openingslyn:

The Canadian social commentator and iconcarver, Jonathan Pageau, describes technology as “layers of skin”.

Een van die groot tragedies in die lewe, is dat ons onsself heel dikwels moet besig hou met dinge wat regtig nie vir ons lekker is nie.