Quote for the Day!

“Its an old wives tale.”

“"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
? Francis Bacon”

“4 days to go.”

“"Santa Fe Baldy is one of a line of high peaks along the divide between the Rio Grande and Pecos River Drainages. At 12,622 feet the peak rises well above timberline"

Hiking New Mexico, Falcon Guide”

“"If you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very low crime rate."

--Marion Barry, mayor of Washington, D.C.”

“"Home is the place where, when you have to go there, they have to take you in."
? Robert Frost”

“"The beauty of the natural world lies in the details."
? Natalie Angier”

“"Poetry without rhyme is like tennis without the net."
-Robert Frost”

“oh, and...
3 days to go!”

“This post makes me "The One After 909"!”

“Today, we celebrate the first glorious anniversary of the Information Purification Directives. We have created, for the first time in all history, a garden of pure idealogy, where each worker may be bloom secure from the pests of contradictory and confusing truths. Our unification of thought is more powerful a weapon than any fleet or army on earth. We are one people, with one will, one resolve, one cause. Our enemies shall talk themselves to death and we will bury them with their own confusion. We shall prevail.

--Apple "1984" Commercial”

“"A gentleman does not shout at deaf people or people who are blind."

John Bridges, in How to be a Gentleman”

“"I came home from school and my mom asked me how it was. I told her it was like a drive by shooting, you don't care how it was your just happy to get out of there alive"”

“"Thousands of tired, nerve-shattered, over-civilized people are beginning to find out that going to the mountains is going home: that wilderness is a necessity."

--John Muir”

“"You are a child of the Universe,
no less than the trees and the stars,
you have a right to be here.
And whether or not it is clear to you,
no doubt the Universe is unfolding as it should."

M. Ehrmann (Desiderata, partial)”

“"In this life that we call home
the years go fast and
the days go slow.
The days go so slow."

-Modest Mouse”

“"Why wilderness? Because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger."

--Edward Abbey”

“A pan of water will spill only after it starts to boil Wasting all that fuel and time spent watching and waiting! LOL”

“Using simple physics, it is determined that Poweris work over time. So P=W/T
If time is money and and knowledge is power, then the vasriables can be substituted to reveal that Knowledge = Work/ money. Assuming that you do a constant amount of work, then the equation can be solved where Knowledge * money = work. This shows that as your level of knowledge increase, the amount of money you make decrease, unless you docide to put more work into it.”

“Golite means go right

Ray”

“Naw, that's not really Ray is it?”

“Who would you expect?”

“Sorry, that just slipped out. Here is a quote for pennance.

"I stay sane, I suppose, because there is a constantly adjusting mechanism in me which balances tyranny against poetry, holy aliveness against atrocity, laughter against nuclear annihilation.... and so my perspective on life is usually positive, creative, adamantly upbeat."

John Nichols in On the Mesa”

“"Patriotism is the last refuge
to which a scoundrel clings.
Steal a little and they throw you in jail.
Steal a lot and they make you king."
-Bob Dylan”

“"I don't feel we did wrong in taking this country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves."

--John Wayne”

“blaff”

“"The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing"
-John Wayne”

“Sorry, that was said by Edmund Burke not John Wayne.

"The internet has great potential for the spread of misinformation."
-Barlo Mung”

“"We know that the white man does not understand our ways. One portion of land is the same to him as the next, for he is a stranger who comes in the night and takes from the land whatever he needs. The earth is not his brother, but his enemy, and when he has conquered it, he moves on."

-Seattle Chief of the Dwamish, Suquamish & allied Indian tribes”

“"The Web brings people together because no matter what kind of a twisted sexual mutant you happen to be, you've got millions of pals out there. Type in 'Find people that have sex with goats that are on fire' and the computer will ask, 'Specify type of goat.'"

-- Jason Alexander (George Costanza)”

“"This is great silliness of course, but it is the sillyness of highly intelligent and perceptive people."
Alasdair MacIntyre”

“"Waaaaaaaaaa!!!!!!!WAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!WAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!WAWAWAWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!WAAAAAAAAAAWAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!"

My 7 day old daughter at 10pm,1230am,130am,215am,7am”

“"You can't just let nature run wild."

--Wally Hickel, former governor of Alaska and Secretary of the Interior”

“"If you cannot convince them, confuse them."

Harry S Truman


"If you cannot confuse them, abuse them"

Kleetybob”

“Self abuse is best, I say!”

“"You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the time, but you can't fool all of the people all of the time."
-Lincoln

"You can fool all of the people all of the time, assuming they're fools."
-Me”

“"Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter."

--Ansel Adams”

“"We cannot permit the extreme in the environmental movement to shut down the United States. We cannot shut down the lives of many Americans by going to the extreme on the environment."

-George Bush”

“"It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."

-Dan Quayle”

“"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and child."

-Dan Quayle”

“"without air polution, there would be no clouds and thus no rain, and that would suck"
-little known weather fact”

“"Air pollution is also responsible for some damn perty sun sets."
-weather guy

"Acid rain shmacid rain."
-putty tat”

“"Humanity would be perfect, if not for the people."
Me.”

“"As to the exposure and rearing of children, let there be a law that no deformed child shall live..."
-Aristotle

Scary huh?”

“To raise and exceptional child in our culture will demand the best parents have to give. In fact, it will perhaps become their life's second greatest challenge. The main challenge to any person will aways be person a gowth, development, and self-actualization. Parents can only give to their children, or anyone else, what they themselves have and know. for parents the main responsibility will always be to themselves. This may sound selfish but it becomes less so when one considers that ignorance only creates more ignorance, while only wisdom can create wisdom. No dead person has ever taught life, as no loveless person has ever been able to teach love. One must have these qualities first, before sharing them with others.
-Buscaglia (1983) as quoted by Berry and Hardmen (1998).”

“"I hate when a thread goes over 50 posts long!"

SGT Rock when trying to read this friggin thing”

“"If you don't use Trail Talk Today to read this thread, you have too much damned time on your hands."

-my lazy ass.”

“"It is not so much for its beauty
that the forest makes a claim
upon men's hearts,
as for that subtle something,
that quality of air
that emanation from old trees,
that so wonderfully changes and renews
a weary spirit."

--Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)”

“"My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher."

-Socrates (470-399 B.C.)”

“"I have left orders to be awakened at any time in case of national emergency, even if I'm in a cabinet meeting."

--Ronald Reagan (happy birfday!)”