I walk wherever my errands take me.

Getting lost was not a matter of geography so much as identity, a passionate desire, even an urgent need, to become no one and anyone, to shake off the shackles that remind you who you are, who others think you are.

How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?

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.

For me, childhood roaming was what developed self-reliance, a sense of direction and adventure, imagination, a will to explore, to be able to get a little lost and then figure out the way back.

Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.

For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.