Commentary, ideas and miscellany in the spirit of Edward Abbey
A recent quote on a listserve to which I belong peaked my interest:
“…the real religion of our times is Technoscience with its faith in infinite Progress: limitless expansion of size, scope and power of the human technolgocial [sic] system (the megamachine). The ‘developed’ world (i.e. the world to the extent that is it has [...]
In 1981, Earth First! launched itself by unfurling a three-hundred foot plastic “crack” along the front of Glen Canyon Dam. Edward Abbey was the master of ceremonies.
Ken Sleight describes it: “Six Earth First!ers drove to a locked gate on an access road to Glen Canyon Dam. They hefted a 100-pound bundle over the fence, and [...]
The Lake District, Cumbria
William Wordsworth was born on this day in 1770. Wordsworth was perhaps the best known of the English Romantics and the poet laureate of England that helped usher in the movement with his opium eating friend, Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Thanks to a wonderful senior English teacher, I [...]
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