Quote of the day
The sun was like a great visiting presence that stimulated and took its due from all animal energy. When it flung wide its cloak and stepped down over the edge of the fields at evening, it left behind it a spent and exhausted world.
Colin Tudge

Born: April 22, 1943 (age 82)
Bio: Colin Hiram Tudge is a British science writer and broadcaster. A biologist by training, he is the author of numerous works on food, agriculture, genetics, and species diversity.
Known for:
- The Variety of Life (2000)
- The Secret Life of Trees (2005)
- Feeding People is Easy (2007)
- So Shall We Reap (2003)
- Neanderthals, Bandits and Farmers (1998)