for seldom seen and haydukelives...

Do it surfdogg. I'd humbly suggest you start with Desert Solitaire, but that's just me.

 

I was thinking the same thing. I missed 420 though. Ill have to hit 540

 

Whats your top pick cleveland? Hayduke?

 

Abbey book?

 

Dear God, please give us a pre-cision earthquake right on this here damn.

 

Sounds like subversive thinking to me. Sedition!!
Typical tree-hugger stuff. I like trees as well--My house is made with them.
So are the stringers in my boards, dude.

 

^^^This. Wouldn't have been Earth First! without Ed imho. But steamer's right, the first incarnation of the group was way too hard for the modern day movement. EF got ghey and concerned with social justice issues.

Steamer, there's a great read called Green Rage that addresses the change. Written by Christopher Manes I believe.

Didn't listen to this yet, but the linked popped up on FB...

https://soundcloud.com/otisgibbs/episode-126-edward-abbey-stories

 

[video]https://archive.org/details/InterviewWithEdwardAbbey_1982[/video]

 

Anytime man. Was a good listen. There's some stuff on Youtube of Ed reading his essays...listening to In defense of the redneck right now. Did the redneck get your coyote?

And yes, that is a sad truth. Can't even defend the one thing we'll need when it all collapses. And they just ruined the last trail in the woods I could get to without driving.

 

Whoa...I will take a closer look at that this afternoon. Since you raised the issue Steamer, figured this was apropos...

[video=youtube;u5ZswDZinSQ]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5ZswDZinSQ[/video]

 

I have...didn't spend as much time as I'd like, but will definitely be back there one day. Only drove through Moab, but spent a day at Arches then one at Canyonlands. Was privileged enough to eat a moderate dose of psilocybin whilst in Arches, so I feel like I got more bang for my buck lol. As a whole, the place was otherworldly, amazingly beautiful. And the night sky in Utah was probly the best I've ever seen. Also, saw a watermelon stand next to a gas station...I pretended it was Seldom's

 

ah, this is a good thread. Sorry It took me four pages to realize its gold.

That being said, steamer youre o.k. in my book, pun intended.

I have a confession to make though, While i believe, fully support, have read, researched, and contemplated everything ed stood for or put onto paper, my memory of exact phrases and passages is bleak.

This tread has brought back much of the feeling I would get when reading various passages of MWG and desert solitaire while I was a wilderness guide in southern utah. Staring at ranchers fence lines watching wild elk struggle to maintian migration routes while hunters fired upon them from the beds of their trucks. In one hand ed would love to give them a swift kick in the nads, on another he would fully support their movement to stick it to the man and his hunting rules.

often times I find myself conflicted by movements of those who take an extreme stance on the simplicity of nature and open spaces, and find myself striving to enjoy it more these days than getting pissed off about it changing. Life is too short to not enjoy it. Thanks for posting that original quote steamer, its sick to revisit that balance ed was good at.