What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a
cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
-- Edward Abbey
cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
-- Edward Abbey
Related:
- The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more
miserable than our own.
Edward... - Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no
more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
Edward... - Alaska is our biggest, buggiest, boggiest state. Texas remains our largest
unfrozen state.
But mountainous Utah, if ironed out flat, would take... - What we call reality is an agreement that people have arrived
at to make life more livable.
Louise... - Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact,
they know little of anything. -- Edward... - We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working
for us.
Edward... - Reincarnation? There is such a thing. What could be more Mozartian than the
Nutcracker Suite?
Edward... - A Mahler symphony is full of surprises--but each surprise,
on second hearing, turns out to be an *inevitable*... - Simplicity is always a virtue. One kid on a riverbank working out a Stephen
Foster tune on his new harmonica heard from the correct esthetic distance
projects more magic and power than the entire Vienna Philharmonic and Chorus
laboring (once again) through the Mozart Requiem or Bach's B Minor Mass.
Edward...
