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I walk wherever my errands take me.
Books are solitudes in which we meet.
Credibility is a basic survival tool.
Despair is easy, or at least low cost.
The promenade is a special subset of walking.
Roads are a record of those who have gone before.
Walking articulates both physical and mental freedom.
Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.
The process of transformation consists mostly of decay.
A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.
Everyday life is a disaster, and disaster can liberate us.
Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason.
All gardening is landscape painting,' said Alexander Pope.
Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.
Walking . . . is how the body measures itself against the earth.
There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.
We make ourselves large or small, here or there, in our empathies.
Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.
Kindness and gentleness never had a gender, and neither did empathy.
The magic of the street is the mingling of the errand and the epiphany.
A path is a prior interpretation of the best way to traverse a landscape.
Modern life is moving faster than the speed of thought, or thoughtfulness.
There are infinite shades of grey. Writing often appears so black and white.
I see disaster everywhere; I also […] see generosity and resistance everywhere.
A contrarian at heart, I am often guided by what I disagree with and don't want.
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.
Time itself is our tragedy and most of us are fighting some kind of war against it.
Walking, ideally, is a state in which the mind, the body, and the world are aligned.
We know less when we erroneously think we know than when we recognize that we don't.
Walking allows us to be in our bodies and in the world without being made busy by them.
How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
No matter how deeply you come to know a place, you can keep coming back to know it more.
Having the right to show up and speak are basic to survival, to dignity, and to liberty.
Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.
A procession is a participants' journey, while a parade is a performance with an audience.
...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.
Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.
You get lost out of a desire to be lost. But in the place called lost strange things are found.
Violence doesn't have a race, a class, a religion, or a nationality, but it does have a gender.
There are fossils of seashells high in the Himalayas; what was and what is are different things.
...the questions a photographer raises may be more profound than the answers the medium permits.
Pain serves a purpose. Without it you are in danger. What you cannot feel you cannot take care of.
EXPLORING the world is one of the best ways of exploring the mind, and walking travels both terrains.
It's all about a war of social impulses and beliefs that is as powerful in its way as a big hurricane.
Sometimes a few passionate people change the world; sometimes they start a mass movement and millions do.
Activism is not a journey to the corner store. It is a plunge into the unknown. The future is always dark.
The art is not one of forgetting but letting go. And when everything else is gone, you can be rich in loss.
You don't have to be a preacher to talk about what matters, and you don't have to drop the pleasures of style
Given a choice between their worldview and the facts, it's always interesting how many people toss the facts.