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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

I wish to be
an inspector of volcanoes.
I want to study cloud formations
and memorize the wind
and learn by heart the habits of
the ponderosa pine. – Edward Abbey

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Nature
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Edward Abbey
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals. – Edward Abbey

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Home
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Edward Abbey
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Environment
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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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Economic advance is not the same thing as human progress. – John Clapham, A Concise Economic History of Britain, 1957

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Environment

When a man wantonly destroys one of the works of man we call him a vandal. When he destroys one of the works of god we call him a sportsman. – Joseph Wood Krutch

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We have to walk in a way that we only print peace and serenity on the Earth. Walk as if you are kissing the Earth with your feet. – Thích Nhất Hạnh

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