If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capac…

Edward Abbey
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If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream. ✨ Edward Abbey (1968). Desert Solitaire, p.177, Simon and Schuster
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