time to get out
“One
final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a
reluctant enthusiast....a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic.
Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and
adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more
important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out
there and hunt and fish and mess around with your friends,
ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains, bag the
peaks, run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air,
sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the
lovely, mysterious, and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain
in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active
and alive, and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet
victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their
hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk
calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.”
― Edward Abbey
This is good! Half-hearted fanatic sounds about right to me.
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