" In our increasingly fundamentalist country, we have to remember what is fundamental: gravity - what draws us to a place and keeps us there, like love, like kinship. When we commit to a particular place, a certain element of choice is removed. We are free to dig in, and allow ourselves to be mentored by the life around us. We begin to see the world whole instead of fractured. Long-term strategies replace short-term gains. Routine opens the door to creativity. We inform one another and become educated public that responds. "

― Terry Tempest Williams , The Open Space of Democracy