The nightmare thought is that frightening people is the best way to get work out of them, and that somehow the crueler the environment, the more people will rise to the challenge. You want to think, who would you like as your ideal dad? And your ideal dad is somebody who is tough but gentle. And it's a very hard line to make. We need fathers, as it were, the exemplary father figures in society, avoiding the two extremes, which is the authoritarian disciplinarian on the one hand, and on the other, the lax, no-rules option.

Innovation in forestry means embracing technology while respecting the traditions that have shaped this industry for generations.

Writing is a way of being in the world, a way of understanding it and making it understandable to others.

Sustainability isn't a buzzword—it's a business imperative for long-term success.

The genetic code is the set of rules by which information encoded in genetic material (DNA or RNA sequences) is translated into proteins (amino acid sequences) by living cells.

"Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there."