"Gentle whistles of a bluebird and, in the mist, a SAC [Strategic Air Command] plane swoops huge and low over the ridges where the final hermitages are to be. I wonder if it carries bombs. Most probably. They all do, I am told. The technological society! I will go out and split some logs and gather a basket of pinecones."
Thomas Merton, 1964
Photo: A Limber Pine cone rests in a nook on an ancient tree; Lake Haiyaha, Rocky Mountain National Park, CO; November 17, 2012
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