We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deepl…

Edward Abbey
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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men. ✨ Edward Abbey (1988). Desert Solitaire, p.55, University of Arizona Press
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