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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

We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men. – Edward Abbey

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Time
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Edward Abbey
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. – Edward Abbey

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Science
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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air. – Edward Abbey

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Weather
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Other Quotes from
Environment
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Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. – William Ruckelshaus, Business Week, 18 June 1990

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Environment

Waste is a tax on the whole people. – Albert W. Atwood

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Environment

Water flows uphill towards money. – Anonymous, saying in the American West, quoted by Ivan Doig in Marc Reisner, Cad

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Environment

When some high-sounding institute states that a compound is harmless or a process free of risk, it is wise to know whence the institute or the scientists who work there obtain their financial support. – Lancet, editorial on the "medical-industrial complex," 1973

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Environment

Random Quotes

The great use of life is to spend it for something that outlasts it. – William James

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Helping

A hero is a man who is afraid to run away. – English Proverb

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Heroes/Heroism

There are many men of principle in both parties in America, but there is no party of principle. – Alexis de Tocqueville

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Election Day

There is a lot more juice in grapefruit than meets the eye. – Author Unknown

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Food