Books Are Solitudes In Which We Meet.

Everywhere People Are At Work To Build A Better World In Which We - And Some Of The Beauty Of This World - Will Be Guaranteed To Survive. Everywhere They Are At War With The Forces Threatening Us And The Planet.

Musing Takes Place In A Kind Of Meadowlands Of The Imagination, A Part Of The Imagination That Has Not Yet Been Plowed, Developed, Or Put To Any Immediately Practical Use…time Spent There Is Not Work Time, Yet Without That Time The Mind Becomes Sterile, Dull, Domesticated. The Fight For Free Space — For Wilderness And Public Space — Must Be Accompanied By A Fight For Free Time To Spend Wandering In That Space.

Sense Of Place Is The Sixth Sense, An Internal Compass And Map Made By Memory And Spatial Perception Together.

We Are Moving Into A World Of Unaccountable And Secretive Corporations That Manage All Our Communications And Work Hand In Hand With Governments To Make Us Visible To Them. Our Privacy Is Being Strip-mined And Hoarded.

A Lot Of People Think Of Political Activism As Some Grim Duty, And I Think We Do Have An Obligation To Be Citizens - To Be Informed And Engaged.