Who would you have liked to be ?
I would have liked to have been me - with abundant self confidence right from the start. You would be looking at a much more impressive individual today.

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If a good faerie offered to grant you one wish, which would yours be ?
World peace – It’s something we need more than ever.

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What is your message for future generations ?
Read. All the answers to the important questions have been written down for the last 6000 years.

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If you could travel through time, which era, place or event would you like to tour ?
There are two things that fascinate me. One is Eric the Red’s discovery of Iceland. The other is accompanying Marco Polo to China, meeting Kublai Khan and experiencing the opulence of another world.

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Which day or moment of your life would you love to relive ?
Well, I can relive many in my memory. What we experience at the time is often accompanied by confusion. It’s good to know you can revisit with the balance of experience.

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Which great cause do you, or would like to, uphold ?
I suppose you could sum it up as ‘think globally and act locally’: Take daily action to reduce your own impact.

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What are you rather partial to / What is your "pet addiction" ?
I was going to say listening to people and sharing experiences. But I have another pet addiction and that’s drinking tea. And often the two complement each other.

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Which event has had the most impact on your era (generation) ?
In a general sense: the realisation that we are polluting and damaging the planet as a whole. But, on a global people sense, the modern feminist movement, kicked-off by Germaine Greer's book The Female Eunuch.

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What do you miss most that no longer exists ?
It exists, but I don’t often get to find real darkness. I’ve had it out in the bush. I like the impact it makes on the senses – heightens them.

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What is your favorite childhood recollection ?
Lying on the lawn, looking at the grass and suddenly moving into another dimension, of all the activity that’s going on there.

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