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Quote by Edward Abbey
Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees,

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

Other quotes by Edward Abbey

There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. – Edward Abbey

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Experience
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Edward Abbey
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I wish to be
an inspector of volcanoes.
I want to study cloud formations
and memorize the wind
and learn by heart the habits of
the ponderosa pine. – Edward Abbey

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Nature
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Edward Abbey
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Waste not the smallest thing created, for grains of sand make mountains, and atomies infinity. – E.Knight

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The human race will be the cancer of the planet. – Julian Huxley, attributed

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Remember when atmospheric contaminants were romantically called stardust? – Lane Olinghouse

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We are the environment. – Charles Panati

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