Industrial 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.
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@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.socialMy own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIndolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWe judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialRunning the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWe judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialTo live life is to take risks; to always be safe and secure is death.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialRemaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhy I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North Star, to serve as a guiding point.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialHeaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialRecorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIs it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAh, to be a buzzard now that spring is here!
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn art as in life, form and subject, body and soul, are one.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAs a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIn the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe beauty of Delicate Arch explains nothing, for each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.