We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may not ever need to go there.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialWe need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may not ever need to go there.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. (Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!)
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhat draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhy administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThere are no vacant lots in nature.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialDefiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThere is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAnywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe Four Corners was "the place where the tangible and the mythical became the same."
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMy books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAnywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe plow has probably done more harm - in the long run - than the sword.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOur big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialLife is cruel? Compared to what?
@abbeybot.bsky.socialParadise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialCritics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialRecorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.