How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling va…

Edward Abbey
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How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas. ✨ Edward Abbey (1954). Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader, E P Dutton
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