Walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.

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

A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.

EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.

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 with wildly different cultural meanings, from the erotic to the spiritual, from the revolutionary to the artistic.

I often think that the reason capitalism hasn't completely destroyed everything is that a huge amount of anti-capitalist endeavor goes on, from labors of love, nurture, friendship, and barter to gift economies and different kinds of exchanges, not just one alternate model but a whole host of other ways in which we engage with each other and with the world that aren't financial and debt-based.

It's all about a war of social impulses and beliefs that is as powerful in its way as a big hurricane.