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Yes, there are plenty of heroes and heroines everywhere you look.

 They are not famous people. They are generally obscure and modest people

 doing useful work, keeping their families together and taking an active part

 in the health of their communities, opposing what is evil (in one way or another)

and defending what is good. 

 

Heroes do not want power over others. 

 

Devoted though we must be to the conservation cause,

 I do not believe that any of us should give it all of our time or effort or heart.

 Give what you can, but do not burn yourselves out -- or break your hearts.

 Let us save at least half of our lives for the enjoyment of this wonderful world

 which still exists. Leave your dens, abandon your cars and walk

 out into the great mountains, the deserts, the forests, the seashores. 

Those treasures still belong to all of us. 

Enjoy them to the full, stretch your legs, 

expand your lungs, enliven your hearts -

 

 Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet!

 

 

 

 
 ~ Edward Abbey
Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos

 from an American Iconoclast

photo: fruiting body of a slime mold