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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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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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Edward Abbey
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I dont see how poetry can ever be easy… Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat; blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it. – 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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We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. – Albert Einstein

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Ironically, rural America has become viewed by a growing number of Americans as having a higher [quality of life] not because of what it has, but rather because of what it does not have! – Don A. Dillman, Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science,

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We have to shift our emphasis from economic efficiency and materialism towards a sustainable quality of life and to healing of our society, of our people and our ecological systems. – Janet Holmes à Court

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