Thompson Peak

Language is the armory of the human mind, and at once contains the trophies of its past and the weapons of its future conquests. - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
 

Shafer Butte

If we choose, we can live in a world of comforting illusion - Noam Chomsky

Caldwell

Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us - Cesar Millan

Kuna

Authority is supposedly grounded in wisdom, but I could see from a very early age that authority was only a system of control and it didn't have any inherent wisdom. I quickly realised that you either became a power or you were crushed. - Joe Strummer

Cottonwood Creek

 

There can be no liberty for a community which lacks the means by which to detect lies.  - Walter Lippmann

Stanley

A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. - Aldous Huxley

Lucky Peak, Boise

Goodness, armed with power, is corrupted; and pure love without power is destroyed.

 

- Reinhold Niebuhr

Boise

All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. - Edgar Allan Poe




Robie Creek

What a great way to start this blog!  This tree is near Robie Creek Park, east of Boise.  With each entry I will provide an image of an iconic tree here in the lovely state of Idaho.  Twisted, beautiful, gnarled or ancient, the criteria are varied but hopefully the image will speak for itself!

This tree puts me in mind of something George Orwell once wrote: "A society becomes totalitarian when its structure becomes flagrantly artificial.  That is when its ruling class has lost its function but succeeds in clinging to power by force or fraud."