What Was It Like For People When this Tree Was Living?.

…“[But in the secondary America we’ve been through,] …. That’s the way it must have been a hundred or two hundred years ago. Hardly any people and hardly any loneliness. I’m undoubtedly over-generalizing, but if the proper qualifications were introduced it would be true.” (cont. Next)

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The Blue Sky “Isolates” the Dark Green.

…“ … but the tendency of technology to isolate people into lonely attitudes of objectivity. It’s the objectivity, the dualistic way of looking at things underlying technology, that produces the evil. That’s why I went to so much trouble to show how technology could be used to destroy the evil. A person who knows how to fix motorcycles—with Quality—is less likely to run short of friends than one who doesn’t. And they aren’t going to see him as some kind of object either. Quality destroys objectivity every time. ” (cont. Next)

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A Seed Sprouted On a Dead Log Long Ago, “And Secretly Pursues" Its Quality Track, Thus Making The Best Of It.

…As the Log Rotted-Out From Underneath, Naturally The Small Tree’s Roots Reached Longer And Longer Until They Reached Into the Ground.

Now This Tree Shines In the Sunlight For All the World To See! TRUE TENACITY!

…“Or if he takes whatever dull job he’s stuck with—and they are all, sooner or later, dull—and, just to keep himself amused, starts to look for options of Quality, and secretly pursues these options, just for their own sake, thus making an art out of what he is doing, he’s likely to discover that he becomes a much more interesting person …. ” (Cont. Next)

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Looking Up, Up, the Giant Trees Reach for the Sky.

This Is A Cathedral In the Wilderness!

…“[ …. he’s likely to discover that he becomes a much more interesting person] and much less of an object to the people around him because his Quality decisions change him too. And not only the job and him, but others too because the Quality tends to fan out like waves.” (Cont. Next)

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The Tree, Ever So Straight.

Note Tiny Spot Of Skylight, Straight Up.

…“The Quality job he didn’t think anyone was going to see is seen, and the person who sees it feels a little better because of it, and is likely to pass that feeling on to others, ….” (cont. Next)

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A Spot of Sunlight Reveals the Bark of An Individual Tree.

…“ …. and in that way the Quality tends to keep on going. .. My personal feeling is that this is how any further improvement of the world will be done: by individuals making Quality decisions and that’s all. ” (cont. Next)

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This One Tree Stands Tall Over the Group That Did Not Make It.

…“ God, I don’t want to have any more enthusiasm for big programs full of social planning for big masses of people that leave individual Quality out. These can be left alone for a while. There’s a place for them but …. ” (cont. Next)

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These Two Trees have The Foundation To Stand For a Long Time: Past, Present & Future!

…“ …. [big programs] …. they’ve got to be built on a foundation of Quality within the individuals involved. We’ve had that individual Quality in the past, exploited it as a natural resource without knowing it, …. ” (cont. Next)

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What Will Happen If Our Country Runs Out Of Gumption?

…“ …. [ individual Quality in the past, exploited it as a natural resource without knowing it,] and now it’s just about depleted. Everyone’s just about out of gumption. ” (cont. Next)

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Same Two Trees Higher Up.

They’ve Demonstrated Plenty Of Gumption!

“[Everyone’s just about out of gumption.] And I think it’s about time to return to the rebuilding of this American resource—individual worth.” (cont. Next)

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Same Two Trees Straight Up, Ever So Straight!

They’ve Demonstrated Plenty Of Gumption!

Note Translucent Green of This Conifer Frond.

“There are political reactionaries who’ve been saying something close to this for years. I’m not one of them, but to the extent they’re talking about real individual worth and not just an excuse for giving more money to the rich, they’re right. We do need a return to individual integrity, self-reliance and old-fashioned gumption. We really do. I hope that in this Chautauqua some directions have been pointed to.” (cont. Next)

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The Path Goes by Ferns As it Plunges Deeper Into the Forest.

…“Phaedrus went a different path from the idea of individual, personal Quality decisions. I think it was a wrong one, but perhaps if I were in his circumstances I would go his way too. He felt that the solution started with a new philosophy, or he saw it as even broader than that—a new spiritual rationality—in which the ugliness and the loneliness and the spiritual blankness of dualistic technological reason would become illogical. Reason was no longer to be "value free." Reason was to be subordinate, logically, to Quality, … ” (cont. Next)

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Two Trees In Side-By-Side Competition; Neither One Yielding.

…“[Reason was to be subordinate, logically, to Quality], and he was sure he would find the cause of its not being so back among the ancient Greeks, whose mythos had endowed our culture with the tendency underlying all the evil of our technology, the tendency to do what is "reasonable" even when it isn’t any good. That was the root of the whole thing. Right there. I said a long time ago that he was in pursuit of the ghost of reason. This is what I meant. Reason and Quality had become separated and in conflict with each other and Quality had been forced under and reason made supreme somewhere back then.” (cont. After 8 Photo Interlude.)

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Parked Here Among These Giant Redwoods, Is Probably Where Author Robert Pirsig Probably Saw Pickup Campers.

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AN EXPLANATION FOR The FOLLOWING JULY 2024, 8 PHOTO INTERLUDE: =>

… The /\Above/\ Photo, Starts An Eight Photo Series Of Photos, Taken By Henry Gurr In July 2004. These Are Shown In Sequence Starting Here, Although They Somewhat Duplicate Henry’s June 2002 Photos, Which Are Shown Previously.

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The Walking Path Among These Giant Redwoods, Soon After The Visitor Enters Simpson Reed Grove, Jedediah Smith State Park.

The ZMM Narrator Says =>
…..“[Winter thoughts and lonely people.] These pickup campers through the redwoods, full of lonely retired people looking at trees on their way to look at the ocean.” (cont. Next)

.Close To The Entrance, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.

…To fully appreciate the darkness and moisture of the forest, I recommend that you view this and following images with any lights near your computer turned off.

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There Are Really Giant Redwoods Here!

The ZMM Narrator Says =>
….“ … lonely people. You catch it in the first fraction of a glance from a new face—that searching look—..then it’s gone. .. We see much more of this loneliness now.” (cont. Next)

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A Lonely Path Into the Redwood Forest.

Forest path Deeper Into The, Redwood Forest, Simpson Reed Grove, CA.

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Beyond The Fallen Tree, Sunlight On The Woods.
…In Foreground Left, A Woody Shrub, And At Center, Ferns Seen Along The Path.
…Altogether A ZMM Quality Experience!

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