If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his ope…

Edward Abbey
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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making. ✨ Edward Abbey (1968). Desert Solitaire, p.169, Simon and Schuster
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If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making. ✨ Edward Abbey (1968). Desert Solitaire, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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