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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)
There will always be a part, and always a very large part of every community, that have no care but for themselves, and whose care for themselves reaches little further than impatience of immediate pain, and eagerness for the nearest good.
-- Samuel Johnson
Sometimes I wonder whether the world is being run by smart people who are putting us on, or by imbeciles who really mean it!
-- Mark Twain
If opportunity doesn't knock, build a door.
-- Milton Berle
Before ordering a test, decide what you will do if it is positive or negative. If both answers are the same, don't take the test.
-- Archie Cochrane (www.cochrane.org)
Listen or your tongue will keep you deaf.
-- Native American Proverb
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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#Okefenokee2024 Canoe Trip
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.
#Okefenokee2024 Canoe Trip
Narrows along the Red Trail, nice to have all the living trees after going through about two miles of standing dead post-fire! 
#Okefenokee2024 Canoe Trip
These photos are from the upper drainage that becomes the #SuwanneeRiver further south. There was a 0.5 - 1mph current, which actually made the canoeing *harder* in the winding parts. There were lots of alligators out sunning themselves on this 50-60 degree day. 
Okefenokee Canoe Trip 2024
Just back from a three night trip to the Okefenokee Swamp!
https://richard.rathe.org/2024/okefenokee-canoe-trip-2024
‘Why #mine so close?’: the fight to protect the pristine #Okefenokee swamp
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/apr/01/georgia-okefenokee-swamp-twin-pines-mining?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other
The Guardian‘Why mine so close?’: the fight to protect the pristine Okefenokee swamp