Wake Up and Smell Sacramento

Signs placed in Sacramento, quotes by Edward Abbey

"Without courage, all other virtues are useless."

"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."

"The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses."

"Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul."

"When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about."

"Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly." 

"Freedom begins between the ears."

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Seattle to Portland

 "Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can." - Danny Kaye

 Signs placed in Seattle, Olympia, Centralia and Portland

 "We are not born for ourselves alone." - Cicero

 "Those individuals from the far left, and I'm talking about the Hollywood elitists and the United Nations and those individuals want us to believe it's because we are contributing CO₂ to the atmosphere, that's causing global warming. It's all about money. I mean, what would happen to the Weather Channel's ratings if all the sudden people weren't scared anymore?" - James Inhofe

 "About one-fifth of the people are against everything all the time." - Robert F. Kennedy

  "Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal." - Arthur C. Clarke

 How To Make Signs

 "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances." - First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution

 "News is what people want to keep hidden and everything else is publicity." - Bill Moyers

 "Pushing through the market square, so many mothers sighing...

News had just come over, we had five years left to cry in."
 - David Bowie

 "There is a crack in everything... that's how the light gets in." - Leonard Cohen

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Wake Up and Smell Portland

 Wake Up and Smell the Permafrost

(Arctic Methane Release)

 Signs posted on Portland freeways June 29th and 30th by Freewayblogger

 "History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives." - Abba Eban

 "When I was a boy in the 1930s, the carbon dioxide level was still below 300 parts per million. This year, it reached 382, the highest figure for hundreds of thousands of years." - David Attenborough

(Note: as of May CO2 levels reached 400 ppm)

 "The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only legitimate object of good government." - Thomas Jefferson

 "God's still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous." - James Inhofe

"The world progresses, year by year, century by century, as the members of the younger generation find out what was wrong among the things that their elders said. So you must always be skeptical — always think for yourself." - Linus Pauling

 How to make signs

 "There is geometry in the humming of the strings. There is music in the spacings of the spheres." - Pythagoras

 "Every day is Earth Day." - Anonymous 

 "The blunt truth about the politics of climate change is that no country will want to sacrifice its economy in order to meet this challenge." - Tony Blair

 "I'm agnostic as to the causes. All I know is there is water where there once was ice." - Admiral Thad Allen, U.S. Coast Guard

 "Do you want to spend the rest of your life selling sugared water or do you want a chance to change the world?" - Steve Jobs

"To hold a pen is to be at war." - Voltaire

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Healthcare For All

Wisconsin Overpass Light Brigade

Ecopocalypse Now Signs

 "The obscure we see eventually. The completely obvious, it seems, takes longer." - Edward R. Murrow

 (Signs placed around California)

 "Nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun." - Chris McCandless

 "A pint of sweat will save a gallon of blood." - Gen. George Patton

 "When I was a kid, I used to pray every night for a new bike. Then I realized, the Lord doesn't work that way... So I just stole one and asked Him to forgive me." - Emo Philips

 "There ain't no man can avoid being born average. But there ain't no man got to be common." - Satchel Paige

 "All that we see or seem

Is but a dream within a dream."

 - Edgar Allen Poe

YTD - 538