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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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There is science, logic, reason there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. – Edward Abbey

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Experience
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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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Home
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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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Sky & Clouds
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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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Wilderness

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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Wilderness

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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Wilderness

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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Wilderness

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Theres that unwritten schism that literary writers get all the awards and commericals writers get all the success. – Jodi Picoult

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The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. – Sun Tzu

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good

We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history. We were born in a violent revolution, and weve been in wars ever since. Were not a pacific people. – James Lee Burke

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Moral codes adjust themselves to environmental conditions. – Will Durant

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environmental