There’s a certain comfort that comes with knowing how you fit in the world. Anything that shakes up that comfort – even if it could potentially make your life better- is inherently scary. The Subtle Art Of Not Giving A F*Ck

On the fates of past societies facing problems of sustainability. Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed

It is satisfaction to a man to do the proper works of a man. Book VIII

I saw in their eyes something I was to see over and over in every part of the nation -- a burning desire to go, to move, to get under way, anyplace, away from any Here. They spoke quietly of how they wanted to go someday, to move about, free and unanchored, not toward something but away from something. I saw this look and heard this yearning everywhere in every states I visited. Nearly every American hungers to move. Travels with Charley: In Search of America