Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.

Perhaps walking is best imagined as an 'indicator species,' to use an ecologist's term. An indicator species signifies the health of an ecosystem, and its endangerment or diminishment can be an early warning sign of systemic trouble. Walking is an indicator species for various kinds of freedom and pleasures: free time, free and alluring space, and unhindered bodies.

Perhaps it’s that you can’t go back in time, but you can return to the scenes of a love, of a crime, of happiness, and of a fatal decision; the places are what remain, are what you can possess, are what is immortal. They become the tangible landscape of memory, the places that made you, and in some way you too become them. They are what you can possess and in the end what possesses you.

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

Hope is not like a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky.... hope is an ax you break down doors with in an emergency.

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

I think that walking down the middle of the street with several thousand people who share your deepest beliefs is one of the best ways to take a walk.