God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.
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@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.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOnly a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialYou can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialNobody has so many friends that he can afford to lose one.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIs it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIt's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialPlatitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIf there's anyone still present whom I've failed to insult... I apologize.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialEvery good hike brings you eventually back home. Right where you started.
@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.