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

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We could have saved the Earth but we were too damned cheap. – Kurt Vonnegut,Jr.

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Nature always strikes back. It takes all the running we can do to remain in the same place. – Rene Dubos, Medical Utopias, 1961

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The desire to build a risk-free society has always been a sign of decadence. It has meant that the nation has given up, that it no longer believes in its destiny, that it has ceased to aspire to greatness, and has retired from history to pet itself. – Henry Fairlie, quoted in Conservation Foundation Letter, November 1981

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Justice that love gives is a surrender, justice that law gives is a punishment. – Mahatma Gandhi

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