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Edward Abbey

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Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.

Edward Abbey

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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!

Edward Abbey

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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

Edward Abbey

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

Edward Abbey

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Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet.

Edward Abbey

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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.

Edward Abbey

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Most of my wandering in the desert I’ve done alone. Not so much from choice as from necessity—I generally prefer to go into places where no one else wants to go.

Edward Abbey

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