Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialOur modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWilderness begins in the human mind.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialLove implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAnywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
@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.socialThere has never been an 'original' sin: each is quite banal.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialCivilization is the wild river; culture, 592,000 tons of cement.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
@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.
@nicolaharrisauthor.bsky.socialIn 1536 Catherine of Aragon Henry VIII’s first wife, of twenty three years, was laid to rest at the abbey.
In 1539 King Henry VIll closed
Peterborough Abbey.
In 1541 he founded Peterborough Cathedral.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhy must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.
@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.socialNature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe sense of justice springs from self-respect; both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice; it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMusic is a savage art, a measured madness.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThere is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialGovernment should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialHumility is a virtue when you have no other.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMoney confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil.