Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our ow…

Barry Lopez
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Have we come all this way, I wondered, only to be dismantled by our own technologies, to be betrayed by political connivance or the impersonal avarice of a corporation? ✨ Barry Lopez (2013). Arctic Dreams, p.65, Open Road Media
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