Happy Earth Day -- America and the world needs it now even more now than in 1970 (when rivers caught fire and Pittsburgh was dark at lunchtime)
A few years back, I wrote about how Philly was so fired up in 1970 they had an Earth Week! (gift link) share.inquirer.com/YieoEH
"Our goal is an environment of decency, quality and mutual respect for all human beings and all other creatures—an environment without ugliness, without poverty, without discrimination, without hunger and without war."
Gaylord Nelson, Earth Day founder
I was there, too!
Rocky Mountain National Park.
"What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?" Immanuel Kant, born on this day in 1724
“Journalists inadvertently influence events they cover, and although the effects are sometimes for the good, they can also be tragic. Either way, when death is the outcome, psychic scars remain.”
Malcolm W. Browne
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"What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?"
Immanuel Kant, born on this day in 1724
I believe in coyotes and time as an abstract
Explain the change, the difference between
What you want and what you need, there's the key
Your adventure for today, what do you do
Between the horns of the day.
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Hope you enjoy it!
"I would feel more optimistic about a bright future for man if he spent less time proving that he can outwit Nature and more time tasting her sweetness and respecting her seniority."
E. B. White #EarthDay
On this day in 2021, I signed a contract with the @unmpress.bsky.social for a book about Malcolm Browne and his famous photograph of the burning monk--the self-immolation of Thích Quảng Đức. It turned out well.
Check your messages.
Correct Dennis! You get a copy when it’s published.
Copy still available. Hint: A civil rights activist.
"The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness."
John Muir
To commemorate the birthday of my bio subject, journalist Wallace Terry, a comp copy of my book about his legendary career (to be published Oct. 6 by @unmpress.bsky.social) to the first person to name who served as godfather to Terry's first child.
“Cancel the 2026 White House Correspondents’ Dinner”
— my @washingtonmonthly.bsky.social latest
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"I have finally come to the conclusion that a good set of bowels is worth more to a man than any quantity of brains."
Josh Billings
"I came in with Halley's Comet in 1835. It is coming again next year and I expect to go out with it. . . . The Almighty has said, no doubt: 'Now here are these two unaccountable freaks; they came in together, they must go out together.'"
Mark Twain, who died on this day in 1910
“We became more than friends. We became as brothers.”
Wallace Terry risks his life to bring home the bodies of slain fellow journalists in Vietnam. One of the bravest acts during the conflict.
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"The great art of writing is knowing when to stop."
Josh Billings
I don’t know about you, but when I was on the staff of my college newspaper my photo never appeared on the front pages of national newspapers. Wallace Terry, the subject of my next biography, certainly got attention when he worked for the “Brown Daily Herald.”
"To me, there is no greater subject to write about than war because it's the worst thing that we do to each other. Almost all of the human emotions are involved in war; it's the most desperate time for man."
Bio coming October 6 from @unmpress.bsky.social.
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“Those two years in Vietnam were the most exhilarating and exciting years of my life. I can remember virtually every day because I lived my life with such intensity. I knew that any day I could be killed.”
Wallace Terry, journalist, born on this day in 1938
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“Thousands of tired, nerve-shaken, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home; that wildness is a necessity.”
John Muir
“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop away from you like the leaves of Autumn.”
John Muir
"To sit in solitude, to think in solitude with only the music of the stream and the cedar to break the flow of silence, there lies the value of wilderness."
John Muir, born on this day in 1838
"Biography is the best form of history."
Josh Billings, born on this day in 1818
