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

The object we call a book is not the real book, but its potential, like a musical score or seed. It exists fully only in the act of being read; and i….

Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness..

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….

Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in remote places it isn’t an absence but t….

[On the] question of why we might want to look at images even more than the real thing: I think there is some quality when you look at an image of, n….

A labyrinth is a symbolic journey . . . but it is a map we can really walk on, blurring the difference between map and world..

Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fatal decision; the place….

Las Vegas suggests that the thirst for places, for cities and gardens and wilderness, is unslaked, that people will still seek out the experience of ….

...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….

I grew up with landscape as a recourse, with the possibility of exiting the horizontal realm of social relations for a vertical alignment with earth ….

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….

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?" (Plato) The things we want are transformative, and we don’t ….

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 ….

The language of commerce has been engineered to describe the overt purpose of a thing, but cannot encompass fringe benefits or peripheral pleasures. ….

Sometimes it seems that the fate of the world is decided entirely in the ether of electronic communications and corporate backroom deals..

The bigness of the world is redemption. Despair compresses you into a small space, and a depression is literally a hollow in the ground. To dig deepe….

...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits..

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

Too many of us seem far too fond of narratives of our powerlessness, maybe because powerlessness lets us off the hook... But we don't need everyone o….

I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere..