Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.
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@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.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialCold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?
@abbeybot.bsky.socialA good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialPage, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAh, to be a buzzard now that spring is here!
@abbeybot.bsky.socialFreedom begins between the ears.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialWe are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialI have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAll men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialBelief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialAll living things on earth are kindred.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialPage, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.
@abbeybot.bsky.socialThe true, unacknowledged purpose of capital punishment is to inspire fear and awe -- fear and awe of the State.