Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as…

Edward Abbey
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself. ✨ Edward Abbey (1968). Desert Solitaire, p.169, Simon and Schuster
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