Learning From The Galapagos

A week on the Galapagos never leaves you:

• How nature would be prospering more if we were prospering less.

• How it felt to travel with nature as the reason, rather than people, culture and the style-chase.

• Pride in the island caretakers and how they are managing these treasures.

• I have better trip memories when I draw.

• How much I wanted to swim with a hammerhead, until I put on a snorkel.

• The purity and wonder of new forms.

• How sun at the equator can scorch right through cloth.

• How sex, food and temperature-control drive us all.

• That watching marine iguanas navigate water and land makes you stop cold and wonder.

• How design is everywhere.