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• Why do I live in the desert? Because the desert is the *locus Dei*. -- Edward Abbey
• If the life of natural things, millions of years old does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred?
  -- Edward Abbey...
• There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization.
  Civilization remains a remote ideal. -- Edward Abbey...
• Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Life is cruel? Compared to what? -- Edward Abbey
• Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice. -- Edward Abbey
• Us nature mystics got to stick together. -- Edward Abbey
• If the end does not justify the means - what can? -- Edward Abbey