Life is a tragedy when seen in close-up, but a comedy in long-shot.
-- Charles Chaplin
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A poet who knows what it is he wants to say may be sure it's been said already.
-- Hugh Kenner
To imagine is everything, to know is nothing at all.
-- Anatole France
In science, the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
-- William Osler
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player that struts and frets his hour upon the stage and then is heard no more. It is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifying nothing.
-- William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
Incompetents invariably make trouble for people other than themselves.
-- Larry McMurtry
Every exit is an entry somewhere.
-- Tom Stoppard
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it.
-- Albert Einstein
All mortals tend to turn into the things they are pretending to be.
-- C. S. Lewis
Totalitarianism in power invariably replaces all first-rate talents, regardless of their sympathies, with those crackpots and fools whose lack of intelligence and creativity is still the best guarantee of their loyalty.
-- Hannah Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism)
Never express yourself more clearly than you are able to think.
-- Niels Bohr
The raw materials for breakthrough technologies will come in unexpected forms -- the people, the ideas, and the objects will come dressed in other uses, other meanings, and other relationships. Untangling these existing resources from their current context and putting them together in new ways requires thinking by analogy. It means constantly asking how things are the same. It's easy to point out how things are different; we do it every day in order to decide where to focus our attention and energy. Who we talk to and who we do not, which articles we read and which we ignore -- these are difference-driven choices. And difference-driven choices are, by nature, defensive.
-- Andrew Hargadon (How Breakthroughs Happen)
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has released a proposal for public comment that would expand the 438,000-acre Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge in Georgia by 22,000 acres.
The proposed expansion includes lands currently held by Twin Pines Minerals. This good proposal needs supportive public comments by Monday, November 18.
#FishAndWildlife #Okefenokee #WildernessWatch #Petition
https://wildernesswatch.salsalabs.org/okefenokee-expansion-alert
Wilderness WatchHelp expand Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge!Expansion could help block mining threat.
No mining near Okefenokee
Mining next to the #Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge would irrevocably damage this natural treasure. Yet #Georgia 's Environmental Protection Division just issued draft permits -- bringing the start of strip mining one step closer.
Imagine: Dump trucks carve deep ruts into once unspoiled #wetlands. Giant excavators rip through matted layers of ground-hugging plants.
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Georgia RecorderGeorgia environmental regulators issue draft permits for strip mine near Okefenokee • Georgia RecorderThis story was updated at 7 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 12, 2024, to reflect EPD’s decision to extend the public comment period. State regulators have issued draft permits for a controversial mining proposal near the Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge. The state Environmental Protection Division announced late Friday afternoon that it had decided to issue draft […]
What a surprise...
Floyds Island campsite and cabin. Very open and airy; lots of large oak, pine, and magnolia trees!
Easy 2/10 mile portage. They even provide a little cart for your gear! 
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End of our second day at Big Water Chickee. Plenty of time to get settled in and eat a leisurely dinner. Much less wind, but temps dipped to 38 overnight.
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Narrows along the Red Trail, nice to have all the living trees after going through about two miles of standing dead post-fire! 