One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.
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A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.
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Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.
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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
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This is what you shall do: Be loyal to what you love, Be true to the Earth, and Fight your enemies with passion and laughter.
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I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring.
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A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.
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“The formed stone, the visible crucifix,
The dressed altar, the lifting light,
LIght
Light
The visible reminder of Invisible Light.”
T S Eliot (1934)
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As 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.
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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
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The ideal kitchen-sink novel: Throw in everything but the kitchen sink. Then add the kitchen sink.
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.
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The world of employer and employee, like that of master and slave, debases both.
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental.
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Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
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We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.
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In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.
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Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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How 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.
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When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best.
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Life is cruel? Compared to what?
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They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better cities to live in when their populations are doubled again and again.
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