I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialI once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThere is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialLife is hard? True--but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOnly a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhat is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWomen who love only women may have a good point.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMy computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialBut what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWalking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.
@abbeybot.bsky.social'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'
@abbeybot.bsky.socialReason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAmong politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for "To hell with our children."
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAll dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIt's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialEnjoy our great American West -- climb those mountains, run those rivers, hike those canyons, explore those forests, and share in the bounty of wilderness, friendship, love, and the common effort to save what we love.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMost of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders.