The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOur job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhat does it mean? It means nothing. It is as it is and has no need for meaning. The desert lies beneath and soars beyond any possible human qualification. Therefore, sublime.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOur job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialInstant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
@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.socialA man without a horse is like a man without a weapon: stunted and naked.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIs it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA house built on greed cannot long endure.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.
@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.socialEach thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAmong politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for "To hell with our children."
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIt is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOne breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialSimplicity is always a virtue.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIf the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.