We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Every man needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. Every Boy Scout deserves a forest to get lost, miserable, and starving in.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialWe need wilderness because we are wild animals. Every man needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. Every Boy Scout deserves a forest to get lost, miserable, and starving in.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOur "neoconservatives" are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialLife is hard? True--but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMen love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIf people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhen the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhy do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialHumans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWe are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhat draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIf my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a Juniper tree or the wings of a vulture-that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhen the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings i town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWe are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMen love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialFrom the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialYou cannot see wilderness from a road. What you see from a road is something different- a scene, a panorama, a picture; but you do not feel anything.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMusic clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.