“Viewed simply as a life-support system, the earth is an environment.”

A place is a piece of the whole environment that has been claimed by feelings.

It is the sounds and smells and sights of places which haunt us and against which we often measure our present.

The catalyst that converts any physical location – any environment if you will – into a place, is the process of experiencing deeply.

We are homesick for places, we are reminded of places.

Viewed as a resource that sustains our humanity, the earth is a collection of places.

the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.

When I was 12, I forgot the keys to my parent’s apartment. So I simply climbed up seven floors to get in.

It is thus quite simply false that whereof one cannot speak (in the sense of ‘there is nothing to say about it that specifies it and grants it separating properties’), thereof one must be silent.

It seems some have chosen to ignore or have simply forgotten the big-picture vision promoted by Dr. King and his kin.

I wouldn’t be interested in [nowadays] television simply because I think it goes too fast.

The important thing about advice is that it is simply that. Advice.

I don’t respond to it publicly, because a lot of things are put out there simply for the attention. Things that are meaningful, you don’t need to talk about.

Our responsibility is not simply shielding those we care for from adversity but preparing them to meet it well.