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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

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Society is like a stew. If you dont stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top. – Edward Abbey

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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. – Edward Abbey

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We are shaped by each other. We adjust not to the reality of a world, but to the reality of other thinkers. – Joseph Chilton Pearce

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The command “Be fruitful and multiply” was promulgated, according to our authorities, when the population of the world consisted of two people. – William Ralph Inge, More Lay Thoughts of a Dean, 1931

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Time and space – time to be alone, space to move about – these may well become the great scarcities of tomorrow. – Edwin Way Teale, Autumn Across America, 1956

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Somebody told me it was frightening how much topsoil we are losing each year, but when I told that story around the campfire, nobody got scared. – Jack Handey

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To choose dogma and faith over doubt and experience is to throw out the ripening vintage and to reach greedily for the Kool-Aid. – Christopher Hitchens

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Good architecture lets nature in. – Mario Pei (1901–1978)

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It was the Law of the Sea, they said. Civilization ends at the waterline. Beyond that, we all enter the food chain, and not always right at the top. – Hunter S. Thompson

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Hateful to me as the gates of Hades is that man who hides one thing in his heart and speaks another. – Homer

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