Let 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.social
@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.socialOnce upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be -- a man.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialCongress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
@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.socialSimplicity is always a virtue.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where he always returns, and where, when the time comes, he is willing to die.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialPoetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhere all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMay your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialBooks are like eggs--best when fresh.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialGod bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialSaving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI choose to listen to the river for a while, thinking river thoughts, before joining the night and the stars.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe artist's job? To be a miracle worker: make the blind see, the dull feel, the dead to live.
@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.socialCivilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.
@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.socialSomewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.