“Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize – quite rationally, quite unemotionally – that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.”

“Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize – quite rationally, quite unemotionally – that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.”

— William Boyd