I tell them about the untapped resources, natural and human, that the world has at its disposal, the abundant ways and means to solve its many crises… - Phil Knight

We must all be professors of the jungle.

There was one old fan in the corner of our train car, the blades barely moving the hot dust around. To get cool, Chinese passengers thought nothing of stripping down to their underwear, and Hayes and Strasser thought this gave them license to do the same. If I live to be two hundred years old, I won’t forget the sight of those leviathans walking up and down the train car in their T-shirts and BVDs. Nor will any Chinese man or woman who was on the train that day. Before leaving China we had a final

Don’t go to sleep one night, wrote Rūmī, the thirteenth-century Persian poet. What you most want will come to you then.

All is vanity, says the Bible. All is now, says Zen, All is dust, says the desert.