Ed Cooley:
CLASS OF 1965
Long Beach Polytechnic High SchoolClass of 1965
Long beach, CA
Ed's Story
Ed's schools include Long Beach Polytechnic High School. Ed later attended UCSB, Oregon State University.
One of Ed's favorite quotes is:"âWhy do wandering people conceive the world as perfect whereas sedentary ones always try to change it?â The Song Lines
âBe as powerless as possible, submit whenever you can, donât try to control the earth beyond the absolute minimum. Work with the earth not against it, for the earth does not belong to you, you belong to the earth.â
Wallace Stegner
âThe very least you can do in your life is to figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof. What I want is so simple I almost canât say it: elementary kindness. Enough to eat, enough to go around. The possibility that ...Expand for more
kids might one day grow up to be neither the destroyers nor the destroyed. Thatâs about itâ¦â
Barbara Kingsolver
Society is like a stew. If you don't keep it stirred up you get a lot of scum on the top. Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
On Earth â the problem had been with cars. The disadvantages involved in pulling lots of black sticky slime from out of the ground where it had been safely hidden out of harm's way, turning it into tar to cover the land with, smoke to fill the air with and pouring the rest into the sea, all seemed to outweigh the advantages of being able to get more quickly from one place to another â particularly when the place you arrived at had probably become, as a result of this, very similar to the place you had left, i.e. covered with tar, full of smoke and short of fish."
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