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Quote by Edward Abbey
I wish to bean inspector of volcanoes.I want to study clou

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

Other quotes by 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

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Environment
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Edward Abbey
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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so. – Edward Abbey

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power
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Edward Abbey
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Nature, I have constantly argued in my work, is the real superpower of this godless universe. It is the ultimate disposer of human fate, randomly recarving geography over 10,000-year epochs. – Camille Paglia

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For neither life nor nature cares if justice is ever done or not. – Patricia Highsmith

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Reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. – Richard P. Feynman

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A rude nature is worse than a brute nature by so much more as man is better than a beast: and those that are of civil natures and genteel dispositions are as much nearer to celestial creatures as those that are rude and cruel are to devils. – Margaret Cavendish

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Civility costs nothing. – Proverb

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Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance. – Confucius

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