hannah simmons
@glitterzotz
hannah simmons
“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.
Chief Mountain
Chief Mountain
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.
On May 18, 1934, along with Voge, he began a ten-week climbing trip through the High Sierra, to survey climbing routes and maintain mountaineering records for the club. Previously, they had established several food caches along their planned route, which began at Onion Valley and ended at Tuolumne Meadows.
David Brower
I want to learn more about the High Sierra
Tribal lawyers worked with a coalition of other tribes and nonprofits to settle with Solenex. In 2023, they settled for $2.3 million, ending all of Solenex's current and future activities on the land.[8] The Blackfeet then coalesced a wide-ranging group of stakeholders, including tribal representatives, to oversee further stewardship and... See more
Blackfeet Nation
making me intrigued in environmental and tribal lawyers
135 Magical Winter Solstice Quotes [Party Ideas & Games]
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“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