Play, which I would define as anything we do simply for the joy of doing rather than as a means to an end – whether it’s flying a kite or listening to music or kicking around a football – might seem like a non-essential activity. Often it is treated that way. But in fact play is essential in many ways. Stuart Brown, the founder of the National

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Play seems childish and even transgressive to most, and so they miss a major life trick. To be playful is to live true to who you are as a human.

Play is how we express our acceptance of uncertainty.

Life is uncertain. Play aligns our actions with this lack of knowing.

I have remarked that the materialist, like the madman, is in prison; in the prison of one thought. These people seemed to think it singularly inspiring to keep on saying that the prison was very large. The size of this scientific universe gave one no novelty, no relief. The cosmos went on for ever, but not in its wildest constellation could there

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