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

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. – Edward Abbey

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Sky & Clouds
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What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June? – Edward Abbey

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Arizona
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No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets. – Edward Abbey

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Tyranny
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Environment
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When we heal the earth, we heal ourselves. – David Orr

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Environment

When we become a part of anything, it becomes a part of us. – David Harold Fink

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A person is either the effect of his environment or is able to have an effect upon his environment. – L. Ron Hubbard

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Environment

Your grandchildren will likely find it incredible – or even sinful – that you burned up a gallon of gasoline to fetch a pack of cigarettes! – Paul MacCready,Jr.

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Environment

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Freedom from effort in the present merely means that there has been effort stored up in the past. – Theodore Roosevelt

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There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power. – Honore de Balzac

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How can people trust the harvest, unless they see it sown? – Mary Renault

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You dont walk away if you love someone. You help the person. – Hillary Clinton

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