That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. – Edward Abbey
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
Why wilderness? Because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger. – Edward Abbey
There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. – Edward Abbey
Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science. – Jared Diamond