Yesterday I posted a few rustic wood table accessories that I made from Aspen branches. Today I made two sets of candle holders from branches of another Aspen tree. Could Christmas gifts get any easier? I don’t thinks so.
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Thinking Like a Mountain
Aldo Leopold
We don’t want a world where the guarantee of not dying of starvation brings the risk of dying of boredom.
graffitiIf there is anything completely useless, it is an uncontrolled river in an inaccessible canyon.
Summary of a 1952 study for the Echo Park Dam on the Green River in Colorado. I doubt many paddlers today would agree with this sentiment. Thankfully, the Sierra Club also felt the river would be better left free and pursueded Congress to abandon the dam plan.
From Desert Magazine, 1952 Issue 2, page 34
Stare at this for a while and you will soon figure out what is represented.
The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads.
Jeff Hammerbacher
Farewell
