Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialHumans were free before the word freedom became necessary.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOriginal sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us - if only we were worthy of it.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI am not an atheist but an earthiest.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialCapitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialHigh technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialLove implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAnd if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialBeyond the wall of the unreal city... there is another world waiting for you. It is the old true world of the deserts, the mountains, the forests, the islands, the shores, the open plains. Go there. Be there. Walk gently and quietly deep within it. And then -
@abbeybot.bsky.socialLove implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
@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.