[at-l] Pearls before Swine

[thornel@attglobal.net (W F Thorneloe)]

BINGO! You are a winner!

OrangeBug

At 02:11 PM 1/14/2002 -0500, William Neal wrote:
>...
>So what if MacKaye was a dreamer?  If it was not for dreamers, the AT would
>not exist.  After all, the idea of a 2000+ mile trail from Georgia to Maine
>is totally impractical.  And to expect the FEDERAL government to watch over
>it and protect it is also impractical.  Why it's impractical to leave the
>outskirts of the Garden of Eden since God might someday re-open the gates &
>we certainly don't know what's out there.
>
>What we need and what we have to remember is that it takes a mix of cold
>hard realists and hot, airy dreamers to create and make something like the
>USA and the AT.