Jealousy is not a pathology; it's an evolved defense mechanism against threats to reproductive success.

Innovation in forestry isn't optional; it's essential for survival.

The artist's greatest tool is not the brush or chisel, but the mind.

"A novel is never finished; it is only abandoned."

I quite agree with them that it is not an ennobling experience. Poverty entails fear, and stress, and sometimes depression; it means a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts, that is indeed something on which to pride yourself, but poverty itself is romanticised only by fools.