While a lot of people want to join the left to react against the mainstream or right, I in many ways react against the left - not a lot of its fundamental commitments, but its often dismal tone, righteousness, defeatism, etc.

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

Italian cities have long been held up as ideals, not least by New Yorkers and Londoners enthralled by the ways their architecture gives beauty and meaning to everyday acts.

It's hardly surprising that the corporate aliens lie when it comes to the relationship between doing something about climate change and the economy.

A restlessness has seized hold of many of us, a sense that we should be doing something else, no matter what we are doing, or doing at least two things at once, or going to check some other medium. It's an anxiety about keeping up, about not being left out or getting behind.

All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.

No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.