Quote of the day
Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.
Marq de Villiers
Born: 1940 (age 84)
Bio: Marq de Villiers is an award-winning South African-Canadian writer and journalist. He now chiefly writes non-fiction books on scientific topics. In the past he also worked as a magazine editor and foreign correspondent.
Known for:
- Water (1999)
- Timbuktu: The Sahara's Fabled City of Gold (2007)
- The heartbreak grape (1994)
- Windswept: The Story of Wind and Weather (2006)
- Sahara: A Natural History (2002)