The great majority of people are calm, resourceful, altruistic or even beyond altruistic, as they risk themselves for others. We improvise the conditions of survival beautifully.

Thinking is generally thought of as doing nothing in a production - oriented society and doing nothing is hard to do. It's best done by disguising it as doing something and the something closest to doing nothing is walking.

Anarchists believe that we can govern ourselves in the absence of coercive and centralized authority; the underlying premise about human nature (to use an infinitely problematized but necessary term here) is fundamentally positive. And the evidence that in disasters people are really pretty kind, generous, brave, resourceful and creative fed that.

We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.

There are disasters that are entirely manmade, but none that are entirely natural.

The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.

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