We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured..

When you say 'mother' or 'father' you describe three different phenomena. There is the giant who made you and loomed over your early years; there is ….

They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old langu….

Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, an….

Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable..

Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark..

The fight for free space-for wilderness and for public space-must be accompanied by a fight for free time to spend wandering in that space. Otherwise….

Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible..

Books are solitudes in which we meet..

Every woman knows what I'm talking about. It’s the presumption that makes it hard, at times, for any woman in any field; that keeps women from speaki….

You write your books. You scatter your seeds. Rats might eat them, or they might rot. In California, some seeds lie dormant for decades because they ….

Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone..

I often think that the reason capitalism hasn't completely destroyed everything is that a huge amount of anti-capitalist endeavor goes on, from labor….

In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration….

The positive emotions that arise in...unpromising circumstances demonstrate that social ties and meaningful work are deeply desired, readily improvis….

Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it..

Revolution is as unpredictable as an earthquake and as beautiful as spring. Its coming is always a surprise, but its nature should not be..

We are moving into a world of unaccountable and secretive corporations that manage all our communications and work hand in hand with governments to m….

I roam around a lot in my territory, but what I learn at one end inflects and opens up my understanding at the other..

You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style.

Globally, as the nation-state becomes increasingly less meaningful - a provider of positive goods and more and more just an army and some domestic en….