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Robert Penn
(1967 - )
British journalist and author who contributes to various newspapers and cycling publications. In his late twenties, he gave up a career as a lawyer to become a travel writer. Penn gathered material for a book from twenty-five cycling trips in locations across the world.
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Science Quotes by Robert Penn (2 quotes)
Felling a tree was possibly the original deed of appropriation of the natural earth by early mankind in Europe. Thousands of years ago,… man lifted a heavy flint tool and struck at the base of a tree. He may have wanted the tree for shelter and fuel, or possibly to make a bridge over a river or a path through a bog…. [E]ventually the tree crashed to the floor, and the first act in the slow possession of the land by its people was complete.
— Robert Penn
In The Man Who Made Things Out of Trees: The Ash in Human Culture and History (2015), Chap. 1.
The wind makes music in the woods, but the tune changes with the seasons.
— Robert Penn
In 'Why We Should Celebrate Winter Woodland–Not Just the Christmas Tree', The Guardian (12 Dec 2015).
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) -- 
