Cicero wrote, “To be ignorant of what came before you is to remain forever a child.”

“I dream of never being called resilient again in my life. I’m exhausted by strength. I want support. I want softness. I want ease. I want to be amongst kin. Not patted on the back for how well I take a hit. Or for how many.”

Poet Zandashé l’Orelia Brown

Everything in nature is about flow, he reminded me: wind, water, energy, even people. Yet for the past century or so our cities have been built to disrupt these flows.

Cities are bad for us. Let’s fix them, Rasmus Astrup, Monocle December 2024

If you listen to music on streaming services, you can go for hours without doing anything. But if you play a record, you have to stand up and turn it over. It’s mindful."

Record Industry’s chief financial officer
Mieke Vermeulen

Monocle December 2024

“I hope that every time I say something, somebody raises their hand and says, ‘No, I don’t agree’, because that starts a conversation to take better action.”

Luca Fuso, the CEO of Italian furniture maker Cassina
Monocle December 2024