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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks—chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring.

— Edward Abbey

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Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone — and to no one.

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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.

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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.

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The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.

The Journey Home (1977)

Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

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