"One
final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourselves 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’s still here. So get
out there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble
out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the
mountains, bag the peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet
sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the
precious stillness, that 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
deskbound people 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
...from here.... found while looking for pictures of Tule River country.
