| Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people. If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers. It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it. Nature is indifferent to out love, but never unfaithful. The industrial corperation is the natural enemy of nature. I'd rather kill a man than a snake. Not because I love snakes or hate men. It is a question, rather, or proportion. Though men posess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so. Concrete is heavy, iron is hard, but grass will prevail. The world exists for it's own sake, not for ours. You can't study darkness by flooding it with light. We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us. The mad scientist was once only a creature of gothic romance, now he is everywhere, busy torturing atoms and animals in his laboratory Those who dream of the joys of living in a space colony should live in a space colony. Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland. One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizly bear and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of a cancer cell. Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris. What our economist calls a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most. The rich are not very nice, that's why they're rich. There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed The plow has probably done more damage, in the long run, than the sword The most common form of terrorism in the United States is carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. The rancher strings barber wire across the range, drills wells and bulldozes stock ponds everywhere, drives off the elk and antelope and bighorn sheep, poisons coyotes and prairie dogs, shoots eagle and bear and cougar on sight, supplants the native bluestem and grama grass with tumbleweed, cow shit, cheat grass, snakeweed, anthills, poverty weed, mud and dust and flies - and then leans back and smiles broadly at the TV cameras and tells us how much he loves the west. America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings. The latino military far badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance New Yorkers like to boast that if you can live in New York, you can live anywhere. But, if you can live anywhere, why live in New York? They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albequerque will not be better cities to live in when their populations are doubled again and again. Keep American beautiful, grow a beard, take a bath, burn a billboard. Slavery is a cultural invention |