In choosing where to live or vacation, we may be setting the stage for the play of ourselves, treating nature as prop.

Individualism and mobility are at the core of American identity

We are so habitually nostalgic by now that we anticipate looking back in the midst of enjoyment, look forward to watching the videos we're taking of our children even as we make them.

I read the landscape to help me through, to know what's come before me there, to find my footing in time.

The extent and condition of our property, and our choice of style in dwelling, create a powerful emblem of our identity and status.

How do we accurately evoke land we love? What should we even call the world we walk and drive through-scenery, landscape?

Home is where we know - and are known - through accumulated experience.

He doesn't need to be reminded you're great.

Happiness is achieved when you stop waiting for your life to begin and start making the most of the moment you are in.

I was disappointed, but I kind of knew it was going to be an uphill struggle because of how strong the first season [of "True Detective"] was.

When you feel gratitude, you are the closest to the natural state you were born to live in.

Where the Internet is about availability of information, blogging is about making information creation available to anyone.

Because we're not as serious about terrorism as we can be, people all across the globe feel like they can just murder innocent people.

My communism attempts basically to create a shared society, that's all; a shared society in which individuality will flourish, along with love, and along with mutual respect.

Remember: no attachment should grow, no clinging should grow. They are all against your independence, your freedom, your individuality.

You bought me some forks. And knives. And spoons. Because you love me!

I eat vegetarian. I am just drawn to clean eating, and although I do not deprive myself of sweets or French fries once in a while, my body just feels better if I give it good fuel to work with.