Sublime

Despite the last-minute passage of the Social Security bill, liberal antipathy to Johnson was as strong as ever—stronger, in fact: 1956 had, after all, been the year of the natural gas fight and the exemption of highway workers from the David-Bacon Act, and new revelations about Johnson’s relationship with Brown & Root. Under a headline that wa

Once the revolution of exploitation is under way, statesmanship and craftsmanship are gradually replaced by salesmanship.

Aldo Leopold, A Sand County Almanac

His speeches were very simple. He made no campaign promises; a reporter was to write that Coke Stevenson never once in his entire career promised the people of Texas anything except to act as his conscience dictated. He had made a record in Austin, he said. The record was one of economy in government, of prudence and frugality, of spending the peop

La ruta nos aportó otro paso natural

Bill McKibben’s ideal definition works best for me. He tells us that a wild place is one where you can walk for a week in any direction and not encounter a road or a fence.

She reads Thoreau over wood fires at night.

There are some who frankly and boldly advocate the eradication of the last remnants of wilderness and the complete subjugation of nature to the requirements of—not man—but industry. This is a courageous view, admirable in its simplicity and power, and with the weight of all modern history behind it. It is also quite insane. I cannot attempt to deal