Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.
If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.
In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
If you feel that you must suffer, then plan your suffering carefully -- as you choose your dreams, as you conceive your ancestors.
In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.