In this glare of brilliant emptiness, in this arid intensity of pure heat, in the heart of a weird solitude, great silence and grand desolution, all things recede to distrances out of reach, relecting light but impossible to touch, annihilating all thought and all that men have made to a spasm of whirling dust far out on the golden desert. ~ The country dog's report on returning from a first trip to town: "Stand still, they fuck you to death; run and they eat your ass out." ~ The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.
~ The sign on the outhouse door which reads, "Attention: Watch out for rattlesnakes, coral snakes, whip snakes, vinegaroons, centipedes, millipedes, ticks, mites, black widows, cone-nosed kissing bugs, solpugids, tarantulas, horned toads, Gila monsters, red ants, fire ants, Jerusalem crickets, chinch bugs and Giant Hairy Desert Scorpions before being seated." ~ I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth ~
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