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

I am against resources being controlled by corporations, but that doesn't mean I want them controlled by the state.

Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.

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.

We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.

A lot of people think of political activism as some grim duty, and I think we do have an obligation to be citizens - to be informed and engaged.

For me, before I learned how to read I was really interested in story and in landscape and nature. I decided to become a writer almost as soon as I learned to read.