Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and sha…

Edward Abbey
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Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today. ✨ Edward Abbey (1954). Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader, E P Dutton
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Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today. ✨ Edward Abbey (1954). Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader, E P Dutton

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