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Quotes from Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside — Edward Abbey

1927–1989 United States

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If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone? Contempt for the natural world implies contempt for life. The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside (1984)

I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.

Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside (1984)

I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.

Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside (1984)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edward Abbey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.