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Why wilderness? Because we like the taste of freedom; because we l

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

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Thats the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesnt matter much whether you get where youre going or not. Youll get there anyway. Every good hike brings you eventually back home. – Edward Abbey

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Walking
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there aint nothin can beat teamwork. – Edward Abbey

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alone
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. – Edward Abbey

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

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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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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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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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We make our lives out of chaos and hope. And love. – Bones, “Mother and Child in the Bay,” original airdate 2006 September 6th, spoke

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Gold like the sun, which melts wax, but hardens clay, expands great souls. – Antoine Rivarol

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There are no accidents in my philosophy. Every effect must have its cause. The past is the cause of the present, and the present will be the cause of the future. All these are links in the endless chain stretching from the finite to the infinite. – Abraham Lincoln

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Curve: The loveliest distance between two points. – Mae West

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