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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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing. – Edward Abbey

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Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter. – 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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In wildness is the preservation of the world. – Henry David Thoreau

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We need the tonic of wildness, to wade sometimes in marshes where the bittern and the meadow-hen lurk, and hear the booming of the snipe; to smell the whispering sedge where only some wilder and more solitary fowl builds her nest, and the mink crawls with its belly close to the ground. – Henry David Thoreau

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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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