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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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Belief in God? An afterlife? I believe in rock: this apodictic rock beneath my feet. – Edward Abbey

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

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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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There is in every American, I think, something of the old Daniel Boone — who, when he could see the smoke from another chimney, felt himself too crowded and moved further out into the wilderness. – Hubert Humphrey

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