Nikita

There is a certain Faustian bargain writers make, where their excessive introspection and ruthless observation lends to a stunning landscape of the soul, but elevates their interiority to a dizzying height, from which all they can do is fall.

A good thing about nature is that it is not trying to manipulate me in the way that way cities are, or social media is. Nature is not asking anything of me, or not much

The point, of course, is to make yourself alive — to feel the force of being in your sinew and your spirit, to tremble with the beauty and the terror of it all, to breathe lungfuls of life that gasp you awake from the trance of near-living induced by the system of waste and want we call civilization.

The most ordinary places can be drenched in magic if the timing is r

Essays are to thinking what dance is to movement.

Talking to him, I remembered that all economic abstractions—labor, capital, natural resources—boil down to actual human relationships