Natural history is not taught in seminary. This is curious, as most people in pastoral ministry are about 567 times more likely… — Sara Maitland Biology Copy Share Image
Being alone in our present society raises an important question about identity and well-being. — Sara Maitland Identity Copy Share Image
“Now fairy stories are at risk too, like the forests. Padraic Column has suggested that artificial lighting dealt them a mortal wound:… — Sara Maitland Fairy tales Copy Share Image
“The whole tradition of [oral] story telling is endangered by modern technology. Although telling stories is a very fundamental human attribute, to… — Sara Maitland Art form Copy Share Image
“Forests to the [early] Northern European peoples were dangerous and generous, domestic and wild, beautiful and terrible. And the forests were the… — Sara Maitland Forest Copy Share Image
My father taught me to be independent and cocky and free thinking, but he could not stand it if I disagreed with… — Sara Maitland Cocky Copy Share Image
“I believe that the great stretches of forests in northern Europe, with their constant seasonal changes, their restricted views, their astonish biological… — Sara Maitland Fairy tale Copy Share Image
Of course we also live in a world of great beauty, sacrificial and passionate love, tenderness, prosperity, courage and joy. But quite… — Sara Maitland Beauty Copy Share Image
“Remember that it is good for children to be bored sometimes. Children who are not continually provided with stimuli develop more active… — Sara Maitland Children Copy Share Image
[Georg Cantor was the first to prove that there could be a series of infinities; that infinities come in an infinite number… — Sara Maitland Absolutes Copy Share Image
If you tell people enough times that they are unhappy, incomplete, possibly insane and definitely selfish there is bound to come a… — Sara Maitland Bounds Copy Share Image
“We know that solitude is almost a necessity for creativity and the development of a genuinely and richly autonomous sense of identity.” — Sara Maitland Creativity Copy Share Image
Wilberforce did not believe in either evolution or extinction. Owen believed in extinction but not evolution. Lamarck believed in evolution but not… — Sara Maitland Believe Copy Share Image
We think we are unique, special and deserving of happiness, but we are terrified of being alone. — Sara Maitland Deserving Copy Share Image
Ian Watson did an almost full novel length treatment which I've never seen and when he finished it Stanley said to him.… — Sara Maitland Finished Copy Share Image
“They are suffering from ‘no-mobile phobia’, which has been given the name nomophobia and could affect up to 53 per cent of… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
It is not simply that we share with each other a common humanity, but that individually we have no humanity without each… — Sara Maitland Collaboration Copy Share Image
“Our children are not happy. I believe this is because over the last half century we have increasingly monitored, supervised and attended… — Sara Maitland Children Copy Share Image
Art forms render ideas accessible to readers who could not receive those insights in any other format. — Sara Maitland Art Copy Share Image
Another of the things I started to do during this time was what Buddhists normally call "meditation" or, in Christian terms, "contemplative… — Sara Maitland Buddhism Copy Share Image
“You can have a failed quest, but you can't have an achieved quest and no reward.” — Sara Maitland Adventure Copy Share Image
Gardening gave me a way to work with silence; not "in silence" but "with silence" - it was a silent creativity. — Sara Maitland Creativity Copy Share Image
