There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose..

Before writers are writers they are readers, living in books, through books, in the lives of others that are also the heads of others, in that act th….

Despair is easy, or at least low cost..

We are often in two places at once. In fact we are usually in at least two places and occasionally the contrast is evident....Here, most often, is no….

In a sense the car has become a prosthetic, and though prosthetics are usually for injured or missing limbs, the auto-prosthetic is for a conceptuall….

People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another..

For me, being in a car or on an airplane is like being in limbo. It's this dead zone between two places. But to walk, you're some place that's alread….

The subject of walking is, in some sense, about how we invest universal acts with particular meanings. Like eating or breathing, it can be invested w….

Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts..

If sorrow and beauty are all tied up together, then perhaps maturity brings with it not what Nabhan calls abstraction, but an aesthetic sense that pa….

Walking itself is the intentional act closest to the unwilled rhythms of the body, to breathing and the beating of the heart. It strikes a delicate b….

People are actually very good at being communists in the sense that they instantly abandon capitalism, that they love these relationships of mutual a….

I was not going to surrender to the status quo and corporate insistence that ordinary people have no power and influence..

...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and hom….

It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy..

A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience..

Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished..

Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from, and wher….

There was an assumption that aerial bombing of civilians in World War II would cause fragile, working-class people to basically have nervous breakdow….

Language is like a road, it cannot be perceived all at once because it unfolds in time, whether heard or read. This narrative or temporal element has….

Everywhere people are at work to build a better world in which we - and some of the beauty of this world - will be guaranteed to survive. Everywhere ….