Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game.
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@abbeybot.bsky.socialBaseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOf all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialGood writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialBaseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialMen love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it. And to kill for it.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialCharity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialOne definite advantage of being a conservative is that you never have to trouble your conscience about selling out; a conservative is a sell-out from the beginning, an ass-kisser and power sycophant by definition.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWe are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialHow to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialIt's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.
@garwoodstevens.bsky.socialWe need all hands on deck to save the planet's water resources from the piranhas unleashing their deadly feeding frenzy on our watersheds.This is a call for outdoor people to get behind the outdoor leaders and work together to stop this MAGA madness!
#EdwardAbbey
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAll men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWhy I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.
@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.socialThe consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialKnowing now what we have learned, unless the need were urgent, I could no more sink the blade of an ax into the tissues of a living tree than I could drive it into the flesh of a fellow human.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialUnder the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe beauty of Delicate Arch explains nothing, for each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWomen who love only women may have a good point.