People rescue each other. They build shelters and community kitchens and ways to deal with lost children and eventually rebuild one way or another.

We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.

If gold has been prized because it is the most inert element, changeless and incorruptible, water is prized for the opposite reason -- its fluidity, mobility, changeability that make it a necessity and a metaphor for life itself. To value gold over water is to value economy over ecology, that which can be locked up over that which connects all things.

....there are three prerequisites to going out into the world to walk for pleasure. One must have free time, a place to go, and a body unhindered by illness or social restraints.

If you look at a lot of traditional societies, they're all organized along what we might call anarchist guidelines, but it's not like the Zapatistas were reading European social theory.

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

You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found.