Occupation: Writer Birth: June 11, 1961
Walking shares with making and working that crucial element of engagement of the body and the mind with the world, of knowing the world through the b….
I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America..
A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged..
The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now..
I am against resources being controlled by corporations, but that doesn't mean I want them controlled by the state..
Stories are compasses and architecture, we navigate by them, we build our sanctuaries and our prisons out of them, and to be without a story is to be….
For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, season….
Think of civil society and the state as joined in a marriage of necessity. You already know who the wife is, the one who is supposed to love, cherish….
Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and ki….
We treat desire as a problem to be solved, address what desire is for and focus on that something and how to acquire it rather than on the nature and….
The famous Zen parable about the master for whom, before his studies, mountains were only mountains, but during his studies mountains were no longer ….
Women often find great roles in revolution, simply because the rules fall apart and everyone has agency, anyone can act..
Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and me….
While a lot of people want to join the left to react against the mainstream or right, I in many ways react against the left - not a lot of its fundam….
We are entering an era of heightened disaster, thanks to climate change. Being prepared for disaster will mean being prepared to sift truth from rumo….
....there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to go, and a body unhindered by ….
For me the insurrectionary possibilities of disaster are what make them really interesting and sometimes positive - Mexico City's big 1985 earthquake….
At a certain fork in the road of automatization, Europeans chose to have more time, and they work far less than we do and get much longer vacations. ….
I don't think my work has to be loved by everyone, and it's loved by enough people that I'm grateful and able to keep going..
There are those who receive as birthright an adequate or at least unquestioned sense of self and those who set out to reinvent themselves, for surviv….
The oil corporations spend a lot of money to get, say, the tar sands pipeline through, but nobody's - you know, there are definitely environmentalist….