Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life.
-- Immanuel Kant
#BWCA
California #poppies.
#Bloomscrolling #flowers #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #perennials #botanical #florespondence #plants #monochrome #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #photography #BWCA #BWphoto #sepia
Love all, trust a few, do wrong to none.
-- William Shakespeare (All's Well That Ends Well)
Belief means not wanting to know what is true.
-- Friedrich Nietzsche
To deal effectively with [healthcare] it will be necessary to develop a more organized approach to the medical record, a more rational acceptance and use of paramedical personnel and a more positive attitude about the computer in medicine.
-- Lawrence Weed (Medical Records that Guide and Teach (1968))
There are two kinds of light--the glow that illuminates, and the glare that obscures.
-- James Thurber
That which we obtain too easily, we esteem too lightly.
-- Thomas Paine
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.
-- Martin Luther King Jr.
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MartinLutherKingJr #Science #Spirituality
We should not permit tolerance to degenerate into indifference.
-- Margaret Chase Smith
⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #MargaretChaseSmith #Indifference #Tolerance
It's taken all my life to learn what not to play.
-- Dizzy Gillespie
Threats to the Boundary Waters – November 2025 Update
Nov 5, 2025
Save the Boundary Waters
#BWCA #bwcaw #queticosuperior #conservation
Our favorite senator from Utah, mike lee, is again trying to dismantle the Wilderness Act in the name of profit and "national security."
Border bill could reshape Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness
https://queticosuperior.org/border-bill-could-reshape-boundary-waters-canoe-area-wilderness/
Just re-formated this blog post from 2011...
A most memorable #canoe trip... "burned out" by the #BWCA Pagami Creek Fire... followed by a "four seasons" experience off the #GunflintTrail.
https://richard.mdpaths.com/travel/bwca/bwca_2011/index.html
#ForestFires #NaturePhotography #BWCA2011 #HDR #Panorama #Video
Anyway, here's Woodsy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDDo_gENAYo
'While Stauber said illegal immigrants could trash the BWCAW, a Wilderness Watch spokesperson said that possibility is “very slight.” Stauber did not respond to the pushback from environmental groups.
'Kevin Proescholdt, the environmental group’s conservation director, said he sees bigger threats of damage in what the bill would allow: infrastructure for vehicles and aircraft, including fences, barriers and observation areas.'
—from the article
Top-down knowledge is an illusion. Education without erudition is nothing.
-- Nassim Taleb
Puritanism -- The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.
-- H. L. Mencken
If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it.
-- Roald Dahl (The Twits)
#pictographs #BWCA #quetico #late_woodland #ojibwe
From Quetico Superior Wilderness News
Paddling through time: visiting Crooked Lake pictographs by Pam Wright
https://queticosuperior.org/paddling-through-time-visiting-crooked-lake-pictographs/
"Boundary Waters" by @cavealien is a single I released earlier this year protesting the sale and mining of the pristine Boundary Water Canoe Area wilderness in northern #Minnesota
The single can be bought here:
https://cavealien.bandcamp.com/track/boundary-waters
Save the Boundary Waters!
#BWCA #MINNESOTA #MNastodon #MN #IndieRock #Protest #NoKings #PunkRock #Alternative #Rock
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