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Edward Abbey: "Belief without action is the death of the soul."     "Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners."      "A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter."      "Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins."      "The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature."      "The beauty and existence of the natural world should be sufficient justification in itself for saving it all. If this argument fails to interest the exploitative and cannot convince the indifferent, then we must appeal to deeper emotions."      "It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it."      "The ideal society can be described, quite simply, as that in which no man has the power of means to coerce others."      "One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill."      "Concrete is heavy; iron is hard--but the grass will prevail."      "Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil."      "This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and animals. Stand up for the stupid and crazy. Take your hat off to no man."      "When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble."      "Voluntary simplicity."      "For there is a cloud on my horizon. A small dark cloud no bigger than my hand. Its name is Progress."      "Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful."      "Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind."       "Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried."       Morris K. Udall: "The more we exploit nature, The more our options are reduced, until we have only one: to fight for survival."    "'Growth' and 'progress' are among the key words in our national vocabulary. But modern man now carries Strontium 90 in his bones ... DDT in his fat, asbestos in his lungs. A little more of this 'progress' and 'growth,' and this man will be dead."      "What kind of society, given the choice between recycling a mountain of paper and denuding a mountainside of trees would make a decision to do the latter? The answer: our kind. And it is time to change that."

Welcome to SaveLakeMartin.com.  There are those who will say that this board is nothing but whining, because the lake, like everything else, is destined to change.

We know that. And despite the grumblings that may come from a certain segment of the Lake Martin population, we are not opposed to change.

We are, however, opposed to bad change. Bad change occurs when people stop thinking about what is good for the lake as a whole, and start thinking about their bank accounts, and their social standing. Bad change occurs when people start using the lake to satisfy their ego, instead of their peace of mind.

If you have something you'd like to contribute to this site, just let us know; our email address is savelakemartin (at) savelakemartin.com. (One thing we won't blame on the lake bigwigs is the necessity of using (at) instead of the usual @; the blame for that falls squarely on the shoulders of computer geeks with too much free time.)

Forum

*new* Offshore Drilling: an immediate help?

Quoteworthy

Lawsuit fails; Boat Ban is now Law

Lake Martin Development Corporation info

Growing Up  

We're # 50!

CLASSIC commentary on The Ridge (and they said it, not us.)

Area marinas thumb their noses at the law.

A Tale of Two Frogs

Humans living far beyond planet's means

Idiotic Quote of the Moment

"Nature trails" showdown

The "cruiser controversy" page

SaveLakeMartin.com is now proud to be the internet home of Growing Up, by Bailey Jones. For almost two decades, Growing Up was published in Lake Martin Living magazine. Now that it no longer appears there, people have been asking "What happened?" and "Where can I read Growing Up now?" For the answers, go to the Growing Up page, and read the FAQs.