There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.

Hope is not a lottery ticket you can sit on the sofa and clutch, feeling lucky. It is an axe you break down doors with in an emergency. Hope should shove you out the door, because it will take everything you have to steer the future away from endless war, from the annihilation of the earth's treasures and the grinding down of the poor and marginal. To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.

A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.

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

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.

Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.

A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.