Previous technologies have expanded communication. But the last round may be contracting it. The eloquence of letters has turned into the unnuanced spareness of texts; the intimacy of phone conversations has turned into the missed signals of mobile phone chat ... ('you're breaking up' is the cry of our time).

To be hopeful means to be uncertain about the future, to be tender toward possibilities, to be dedicated to change all the way down to the bottom of your heart.

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

Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.

Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned.

I was fifteen, and when I picture myself then, I see flames shooting up, see myself falling off the edge of the world, and am amazed I survived not the outside world but the inside one.