hannah simmons
@glitterzotz
hannah simmons
@glitterzotz
“wilderness. the word itself is music.
wilderness, wilderness… we scarcely know what it means by the term, though the sound of it draws all whose nerves and emotions have not yet been irreparably, stunned, dead, numbed by the caterwauling of commerce, the sweating scramble for profit and domination. Why such an alert in the very word? What does it
... See moreon lake powell and the glen canyon dam. pg. 188, Abbey, Desert Solitaire).
“A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime, leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled services. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge, even though we may never need to go there. I may never in my life, get to Alaska, for example, but I am grateful
... See morecould have been written by Brower
“They (the Developers) would never understand that an economic system, which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.” pg 160., Abbey, Desert Solitaire.
I just went down a crazy rabbit hole about the Blackfeet People of the Blackfoot Confederacy, the significance of the Two Medicine and Badger Area, Chief Mountain, becoming an environmental lawyer, reading grad school reddit pages, David Brower, and Floyd Dominy. I am thinking about Substack writing and the trail as well.
I want to learn more about the High Sierra
making me intrigued in environmental and tribal lawyers
winter solstice quote
“where trails or primitive dirt roads already exist, the Industry expects — it hardly needs to ask — that these be developed into modern paved highways.” (pg 61, Abbey)
connection to Frasier in Encounters with the Archdruid