My soul can find no staircase to Heaven unless it be through Earth's lovliness.
- Michelangelo Buonardo
When I am working on a problem I never think about beauty. I only think about how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
- Buckminster Fuller
Television
Gunsmoke
Books
The Road to Serfdom, After Virtue, I'll Take My Stand, Jesus the Christ, The Elements of Style, Anna Karenina, The Gulag Archipelago, The Shield of Achilles, The Open Society and Its Enemies, Mere Christianity, The Closing of the American Mind, The Collected Poems of Robert Frost. . .
Heroes
William Wallace, Jehonadab, George Washington, Paul, Duke of Wellington, Hippocrates. . .
I like the vision of each person living under his own vine and fig tree. I am part of a large and growing family. I spend as much time as I can gardening, reading, writing, and making photographs.
I live in Montana, connected to the global civilization and within a few minutes walk of wilderness.
Who I'd like to meet: Abraham Lincoln, W.H. Auden, W.B. Yeats, Benjamin Franklin, Theodore Dalrymple, Moses, Lao Tzu, the guy who invented Photoshop. . .
We can dance if we want to We can leave your friends behind 'Cause your friends don't dance And if they don't dance Well they're no friends of mine I say, we can go where we want to A place where they will never find And we can act like we come from out of this world Leave the real one far behind And we can dance
