@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.
@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.