And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Upon his death Abbey's friends took him out - it's thought to the to the Cabeza Prieta - and buried him pioneer style in an unmarked grave.
ReplyDeleteI've given away several copies of Desert Solitaire over the years.
I will have to get one or two of his books to check him out. Thanks for the heads up.
ReplyDeleteI just ordered two of his books. The best of luck to me!!!
DeleteMonkey Wrench Gang. Funny and perhaps apropos to current conditions.
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ReplyDeleteRudyard Kipling once said that a man can never have too many books, too much red wine or too much ammunition. The man weren't wrong.
Not sure how many successful adventures one could have with E. D.
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