Take Only Pictures, Leave Only Footprints

When you go somewhere like this, some hidden pools and falls, a quite pristene riparian zone , you would expect the beauty to be respected. Well they don't . I cleaned up a full kitchen bag of picnic garbage just left on the creek bank and I smashed the cans. No matter where I go, my pack invariably weighs more coming out than it does going in. The beauty of our small zones relys on us very few willing to pick up, if we didn't, it piles up. I have removed truckloads of garbage from really nice BLM campsites. and fishing holes. Yes I take game and fish in season and following all laws. I have to laugh because most lefty enviro-socialists would never venture to the pristene wilderness this conservative Christian republican loves and enjoys at every chance, on foot, pack on back and a song in the heart full of the Lord's Joy for His awesome creation . I know the litterbugs are just inconsiderate ingrates so I just make sure those that come behind me get to see it as they should, cleaner than I found it. They should do the same. If we all followed this simple mantra: Take only pictures and memories, leave only footprints and love. I have to wonder....?

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CULTURE
"The ongoing collapse of courtesy is no surprise in a nation with so many people who are as self-absorbed as black holes. Consider this T-shirt I've spotted: 'It's all about me -- deal with it.' ... Push in your seat when leaving tables in restaurants, libraries, and conference rooms. Abandoning your chair or barstool in the middle of a path obstructs those who walk by after you depart. ... It remains civilized to hold open the door for someone who is walking a few steps behind you. Letting the door slam in his face is rude. When someone opens a door for you, say 'thank you.' Muttering 'Excuse me' makes a gracious person feel his thoughtfulness is abusive. Walking by and saying nothing, as if that lady or gentleman were your servant or simply invisible, is vulgar. ... 'Please' and 'thank you' are not vulgarities. Use them generously, especially around children. They need to learn two of the language's finest words, even if adults say them less than they should. ... Trash cans are there for a reason. Use them. ... A major airline's East Coast shuttle lounge in Washington, DC's Reagan National Airport -- gateway for learned attorneys, lobbyists, journalists, and members of Congress -- recently almost suffocated beneath whole sections and loose pages of various newspapers. They were strewn across the floor and on many seats. These literate adults apparently did not have their mommies on hand to locate the ubiquitous, neglected garbage bins. The point of all this is not necessarily to turn every American man and woman, respectively, into Cary Grant and Grace Kelly, though we could do worse. The idea is to encourage each of us -- every day, in tiny ways -- to subtract from, rather than add to, the worries of an impolite world." --Deroy Murdock

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