[pct-l] Thank you for your letters.

[brick@fastpack.com (Brick Robbins)]

At 09:44 AM 5/18/01, kkaplan@pocketmail.com wrote:
>I'm hiking not to get to Canada, not to teach or to triumph over adversity or to prove myself, but beause it's wonderful. I can't think of anywhere I'd rather be.
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>Here's an 'Earth Prayer' by Edward Abbey I found pasted in a trail register:

Thank you for the reference to Ed Abbey's prayer.

Here is more advice from him Ed Abbey:
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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, encounter the grizz, 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, that
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 people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotised by desk calculators. I promise you this; you will outlive the bastards. 

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Brick Robbins                                  mailto:brick@fastpack.com

See the music and hear the dance.