There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated... To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.

Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.

A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.

Wilderness begins in the human mind.

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.