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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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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government, I says, but dont insult me poor bleedin country. – 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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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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Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life than destroy it. – Henry David Thoreau, "Chesuncook," The Maine Woods, 1848

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The rose has thorns only for those who would gather it. – Chinese Proverb

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All in favor of conserving gasoline, please raise your right foot. – Author Unknown

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I am the earth. You are the earth. The Earth is dying. You and I are murderers. – Terri Guillemets

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