Fareed Zakaria GPS, featuring Nathan Myhrvold. It’s worth watching, and worth reading the transcript of the segment of the interview not featured in the video.
“Then summer fades and passes and October comes. We’ll smell smoke then, and feel an unexpected sharpness, a thrill of nervousness, swift elation, a sense of sadness and departure.” – Thomas Wolfe
A pleasant old dirt road that drops 1400 feet in elevation in just under a half a mile.
I went to the hills because I had no choice but to live fortuitously, to usurp the essential facts of life, and see if I could not unlearn all that I had been taught . . .