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I've always been intrigued by the way history works, the way we decide what is mentioned.

I think if we don't understand history, if we don't keep referring back to it, we become complacent. And complacency, as we all know, it leads to repeating history.

I find the science behind major natural events almost more interesting than the way in which those same events wreak their effects on human society.

I long for the time when all human history is taught as one history, because it really is.

History's written from what can be found; what isn't saved is lost, sunken and rotted, eaten by earth.

Sometimes history takes things into its own hands.

I was brought up in a family which valued natural history. Both my parents knew the names of all the British wildflowers, so as we went walking the country, I was constantly being exposed to a natural history sort of knowledge.