“Sometimes we must accept something what is not there but in our dreams always”
“The goal of a dream must go beyond inspiration otherwise it's just a fantasy. The end result of a God dream is fulfillment.”
Source: Blurry Daydream: When Faith Feels Like Make Believe
“Life passes like a river full of dreams”
“Because we knew that grunge was the sound of a screaming saw blade—a spawning salmon flicking gravel. It looked like a clearcut. And if you cracked grunge open you would find a moldy fifth wheel trailer inside.”
Source: Jimmy James Blood
“The river has indeed become an inefficient conduit, but the same plaque that plugs this artery used to hold back the flow when it was soil in the hills. Now the land just bleeds when it rains.”
Source: Sky Time in Gray's River: Living for Keeps in a Forgotten Place
“Thus as foreign mining and logging companies open up new areas for new forms of colonial exploitation they set up prostitution industries to service the workers. These industries have a profound effect on local cultures and relations between men and women.”
Source: The Industrial Vagina: The Political Economy of the Global Sex Trade
“Overall, the cost to the Forest Service to prepare and administer the timer sales, to oversee the construction of the roads, to mitigate (in usually small ineffective ways) the damage to the landscape far outweighs any fiscal return.”
Source: This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
“Repeated and prolonged proximity to moribund logging communities set off my misanthropy.”
Source: Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier
“As with grazing on the BLM rangelands, the destruction of our forests is heavily subsidized. The most common estimate is the Forest Service loses between $1,400 and $1,900 per acre logged.”
Source: This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West
“The annual volume of forest felled during the Obama administration was higher than all the years during the George W. Bush administration but one. In the year Obama took office, 2009, the cut was 1,954,092,000 board feet; at the end of the Obama administration in 2016 it was up to 2,536,601,000 board feet, an increase of almost 30 percent. Much of this was done under the pretext of preventing wildfire.”
Source: This Land: How Cowboys, Capitalism, and Corruption are Ruining the American West