Sense of place is the sixth sense, an internal compass and map made by memory and spatial perception together.

...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the gym (and home gym) accommodates the survival of bodies after the abandonment of the original sites of bodily exertion.

A lone peak of high point is a natural focal point in the landscape, something by which both travelers and local orient themselves. In the continuum of landscape, mountains are discontinuity -- culminating in high points, natural barriers, unearthly earth.

I'm a big fan of the vigor of civil society, political engagement, and public life in many parts of Latin America.

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

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

There's enough food in this world. There's enough housing in this world. There's enough shelter in this world. There's enough clothing in this world. There's enough teachers, there's enough universities for everybody's needs to be met, and the reasons they aren't is not because of lack of resources. It's because of distribution, and that's the politics of hate, which is why this is a movement against that. It's a politics of love.