I would like to evoke the sense of wonder and magic in the reader but without invoking the mystical, the supernatural or the transcendent. - Edward Abbey

All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

If a man's imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dreams.

Walking makes the world much bigger and therefore more interesting.