To follow your path and not worry about what to do too much; one thing leads to the next, and you wind up where you’re meant to be.

Life’s too short to take offence.

Life is not worth living if there is no one you would die for.

Not really. I thought that getting the Nobel Prize was a big interruption in my career, I thought and it was very distracting. It takes a lot of time you know, it just takes time to be honoured, you have to travel and you have to give speeches of things you have, oh it’s so often that you get bored to tears when you hear your own voice. And it’s really taking a lot of your time and there’s no way that during this time you can start something new, I mean you just profit from what you’ve done and there is no time to develop new ideas.

Winning the first Green seat in parliament – although that’s cheating, really, as it was very much a collective achievement by the whole party.

Picnicking on the Downs with my family and dog – birds singing, sea sparkling, and mobile switched very firmly off.

Passionate, mum, green.

Not to have been joined by more Green MPs … yet.

Jacinda Ardern, the former New Zealand prime minister – for embodying a different, more compassionate politics.

Being on my deathbed and realising I’d forgotten to treat each day as the miracle that it is.