Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And…

Edward Abbey
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Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a world. ✨ A Voice Crying in the Wilderness.
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Places: a cold, bleak, lonely day on the rim at Muley Point, Utah. And the heart-cracking loveliness of the blood-smeared, bitter, incomprehensible slaughterhouse of a world. ✨ A Voice Crying in the Wilderness.

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