Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast.... a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can! While it is still here! So get out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators, I promise you this; you will outlive the bastards.
Edward Abbey (1927 – 1989), author of the Monkey Wrench Gang and Desert Solitaire, at a 1987 Earth First! Rally at the Grand Canyon.
Wednesday, March 26, 2008
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Posted by Beej at 1:40 AM
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That's a good quote. Nat told me once that the best advice she was ever given was "play harder than you work." I think there is a lot of merit to that idea.
So true! I need to get my kids out and about-we've been cooped up WAY too long! Too bad it ice/snowed today! :(
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