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"No, I won't!" cried the Fillyjonk and rose on cramped legs. "If I try to make everything the same as before, then I'll be the same as before myself. I'll be afraid once more...I can feel that. And the tornadoes will come back to lurk around me, and the typhoons, too..."
 -from The Fillyjonk Who Believed in Disasters, in Tales from Moominvalley, by Tove Jansson

From 'Roads to Quoz', William Least Heat-Moon

"To go out not quite knowing why is the very reason for going out at all, and to discover the why is the most promising and potentially fulfilling of outcomes."

His restatement of an ancient notion: "Wandering can help restore one's humanity and reestablish the harmony once existing between us and the cosmos."

American earthworks: Cahokia, Poverty Point, Etowah, Spiro, Serpent Mound, Newark Octagon (Ohio)

“It is good to collect things, it is better to take walks.” ― Anatole France

"...That wisdom of long-lasting prosperity for the many over short-term profit for the few..."