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Quote by Edward Abbey
We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need

We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there…. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope. – Edward Abbey

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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. – 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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Time
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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so. – Edward Abbey

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What would the world be, once bereft of wet and wildness? Let them be left. O let them be left, wildness and wet; Long live the weeds and the wilderness yet. – Gerard Manley Hopkins

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In wildness is the preservation of the world. – Henry David Thoreau

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When we parcel heaven and fence eternity, when the wildness is all tamed and torn, dont let me live to see. – Connie Dover

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Why wilderness? Because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger. – Edward Abbey

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