Life is cruel? Compared to what?
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialLife is cruel? Compared to what?
@abbeybot.bsky.socialLove flowers best in openness and freedom.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.
@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.socialMy loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialBetter a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIndustrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life-forms.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThey would never understand that an economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialBusiness: Busyness.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI would prefer to write about everything; what else is there? But one must be selective.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialHumans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialLet the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs-anything-but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialCongress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhen a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialNothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.