On 18 August I talked with two authors whose books offer complementary views of the interaction of people and the natural world. I first played an interview I recorded a few days before with Alan Weisman, whose best-seller The World Without Us has just been released in paperback by Picador. We also talked a bit about his earlier book Gaviotas: A Village to Reinvent the World, which has just been reissued in a tenth-anniversary edition with a new epilogue by the author by Chelsea Green.
I then talked with San Francisco author Rebecca Solnit about her most recent book Storming the Gates of Paradise: Landscapes for Politics, which University of California Press has just brought out in paperback. Her earlier book Wanderlust: A History of Walking (Penguin) covers much of the same mental territory but we didn't have time to more than mention it.
To hear this program, click here.
posted by Eric Tomb and others 2:09 PM
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Synchronicity - I just today ran across (thanks John Feffer) & saved something by Rebecca Solnit - this:
"The future, of course, is not something you predict and wait for. It is something you invent daily through your actions. As Mas Kodani, a Buddhist in Los Angeles, said in the early twenty-first century: "One does not stand still looking for a path. One walks; and as one walks, a path comes into being." We make it up as we go, and we make it up by going, or as the Zapatistas more elegantly put it, "Walking we ask questions.""
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"The future, of course, is not something you predict and wait for. It is something you invent daily through your actions. As Mas Kodani, a Buddhist in Los Angeles, said in the early twenty-first century: "One does not stand still looking for a path. One walks; and as one walks, a path comes into being." We make it up as we go, and we make it up by going, or as the Zapatistas more elegantly put it, "Walking we ask questions.""
