I don't know of any other city where you can walk through so many culturally diverse neighborhoods, and you're never out of sight of the wild hills. Nature is very close here.

Nature is orderly. That which appears to be chaotic in nature is only a more complex kind of order.

Wherever man exists, he finds the need to redesign, to recreate the world. A more beautiful world, purer, sweeter smelling and more colorful. A garden is probably the spot where the hopes for civilization are best captured. In fact, man defines himself by his garden. My Grandmother standing wordless fifteen minutes Between rows of loganberries, clippers poised in her hand.

Clouds sink down the hills Coffee is hot again. The dog Turns and turns about, stops and sleeps.

Knowing where and who are intimately linked.

Revolutionary consciousness is to be found among the most ruthlessly exploited masses: animals, trees, water, air, grasses

The mercy of the West has been social revolution; the mercy of the East has been individual insight into the basic self/void.