“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.

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

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 stuff we choose to surround ourselves has a claim on our time, energy, and attention and finally on our life. 

A thought-provoking recipe for reclaiming America’s heritage of liberty and self-governance.

Claim it. Believe it. Accept it.  

You cannot reclaim what you have spent.

Everybody in politics claims to want to get everybody out of poverty. What’s the opposite? Wealth. And what is often criticized by the left? Wealth.

Free speech gives us the ability to react vigorously with effective arguments and expose the weakness and misdirection of the other side’s claims.

Impatience and stupidity claim more victims than any weapon.

We are free to say that in respect to political rights, we hold women to be justly entitled to all we claim for men.