benfridge • read

"There are some who can live without wild things, and some who cannot. These writings are the delights and dilemmas of one who cannot..." "When some remote ancestor of ours invented the shovel, he became a giver: he could plant a tree. And when the axe was invented, he became a taker: he could chop it down." "(1) That land is not merely soil. (2) That the native plants and animals kept the energy circuit open; others may or may not. (3) That man-made changes are of a different order than evolutionary changes, and have effects more comprehensive than is intended or foreseen."That technology is not merely hardware and software, "That flourishing occurs when human faculties remain unperturbed, but intrusive technology in our environment forestalls this growth, That technological effects are neither additive nor subtractive but ecological in nature, and range in the scale of their impacts." "A hobby is a defiance of the contemporary. It is an assertion of those permanent values which the momentary eddies of social evolution have contravened or overlooked..."