Tim Colwell

“What harm is done by that commonplace word? What distinctions will not, cannot be drawn where enemy holds sway? Is the concept “enemy” the enemy of clear thought, therefore of justice? What is gained by its invocation? Perhaps as important, what is lost?”
― John Jeremiah Sullivan, The Best American Essays 2014

“Before, I wandered as a diversion. Now I wander seriously and sit and read as a diversion.”
― Walker Percy, The Moviegoer

“The free-range chickens and Priuses are great, but they alone aren’t adequate tools for creating a truly different society and ecology.”
― Rebecca Solnit, The Encyclopedia of Trouble and Spaciousness