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Capitalism1 quote
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. — Edward Abbey · 1984Consumerism1 quote
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. — Edward Abbey · 1984Economic growth1 quote
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. — Edward Abbey · 1984Environmental destruction1 quote
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. — Edward Abbey · 1984Learning from adversity1 quote
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. — Edward Abbey · 1968Wilderness1 quote
Why this cult of wilderness?... Peace is often mentioned; beauty; spiritual refreshment, whatever that means; re-creation for the soul, whatever that is; escape; novelty, the delight of something different; truth and understanding and wisdom-commendable virtues in any man, anytime; ecology and all that, meaning the salvation of variety, diversity, possibility and potentiality, the preservation of the genetic reservoir, the answers to questions that we have not yet even learned to ask, a connection to the origin of things, an opening into the future, a source of sanity for the present-all true, all wonderful, all more than enough to answer such a dumb dead degrading question as "Why wilderness?" To which, nevertheless, I shall append one further answer anyway: because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger. — Edward Abbey · 1971