Phillip Adams
Phillip Adams
Phillip Andrew Hedley Adams, AO, FAHA, FRSAis an Australian humanist, social commentator, broadcaster, public intellectual and farmer. He hosts an ABC Radio National program, Late Night Live, four nights a week, and writes a weekly column for The Australian...
NationalityAustralian
ProfessionRadio Host
Date of Birth12 July 1939
CountryAustralia
amongst enriched fingers trail walk wonderful
You've only to walk amongst them, to trail your fingers over their spines, to be enriched by a wonderful osmosis
calm everybody expects final hard motivated team time until win
We've been motivated this year. Everybody on our team expects to be good. Everybody expects to win every time we play. It won't be that hard to calm down and let everything work. We'll play until the final second.
years grandpa tree
When I was five, a tree was my best friend. An old peppercorn on Grandpa's little farm. I'd haul myself into its calloused arms and hide from the world in its foliage. Apart from the pleasure of looking down on unsuspecting adults, I could be Robin Hood in a one-tree Sherwood Forest or Johnny Weissmuller in his jungle. I fell out of my friend once while Tarzan-ing. Gashed a large chunk from a leg. Almost 70 years later, there's still a scar.
home effort tree
Later, in a different home, I befriended a eucalypt, using a resilient bough as a trampoline. Learning nothing from having plummeted from the peppercorn, I'd bounce happily in my haven in the heavens. I loved that tree - and fully understand why Heysen, Roberts, McCubbin and the rest devoted so much time and effort to painting arboreal portraits.
good-friend naughty thinking
Trees are very good friends. Firm friends. My five year olds tree could be relied upon to be there next day, uncritical and protective. And think of trees contribution to our lives. They provide boats, buildings, paper, furniture and, for clog-wearers, footwear. As well as contributing toothpicks and chopsticks they give little birdies somewhere comfy to sit. Best of all, they help produce breathable air and lock up that naughty carbon. Why is why I am talking to the Greens about giving trees the vote.
leadership today sticks
Today, words. Tomorrow, sticks and stones. And the day after that?
leadership hurt atmosphere
While sticks and stones break bones, words can never hurt? Manifestly untrue. Politics everywhere are holistic, interconnected, and the rhetoric of right or left can produce toxic atmospheres in which lunacy thrives.
leadership political massacres
Let the massacres remind us to turn down our political volume and venom.
sports religious inspirational-life
Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.
trying miserable failing
Unless you are willing to try, fail miserable, and try again, success won't happen.
success unless willing
Unless you're willing to have a go, fail miserably, and have another go, success won't happen.