April 28th, 2007
abbey’s words that stop me cold when i read them so i share them here


“While we dream and drift on the magic river the busy little men with their gargantuan appliances are hard at work, day and night, racing against the time when the people of America might possibly awake to discover something precious and irreplaceable about to be destroyed.”
[written while floating down the colorado river at glen canyon before it was drowned and destroyed.)
Wilderness, the word itself is music.
Wilderness, wilderness….We scarcely know what we mean by the term, though the sound of it draws all whose nerves and emotions have not yet been irreparably stunned, deadened, numbed by the caterwauling of commerce, the sweating scramble for profit and domination.
….But the love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need–if only we had the eyes to see. Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us–if only we were worthy of it.

if only indeed.

Apr 28 2007
11:18 pm
eb writes:

sticks,
stones,
water,
sky…
a vision that unravels
a blanket I wrap myself in -
oh dear mother
and a tree where the deer
rub and scratch themselves
whose fingers
reach to the sky -
sticks
and the stones
at her rooted feet
drink the water
this
is my home
oh yes – in gratitude -
xox – eb.

Apr 29 2007
10:40 am
Christina writes:

Hi Keri!
Love your blog and I wanted to just inquire who the author was (you mentioned Abbey in the title of this entry) for today’s really inspiring quote. Thanks in advance!

Apr 29 2007
11:22 am
KG writes:

Thanks for the recent meditations on nature- they are golden!

Apr 29 2007
11:23 am
Maile writes:

Christina–the writer is Edward Abbey, I believe.

Apr 30 2007
8:06 am
evden eve nakliye writes:

thank you very nıce thank you very much…

Apr 30 2007
8:41 pm
Eveline writes:

Keri, I always enjoy reading your posts. Don’t know if you partake in these kinds of things, but I awarded you a Thinking Blogger award on my blog, as one of 5 blogs that make me think. blessings…

May 5 2007
1:58 pm
keri Smith writes:

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May 5 2007
1:58 pm
keri Smith writes:

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