Advice

“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