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• The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature. -- Edward Abbey
• One thing I like about mountain climbing is that there are always plenty of excuses for turning back before disaster strikes.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• It is known that in recent years, industrial pollution has caused the Earth's ozone layer to thin, allowing an increase in the amount of ultraviolet radiation that reaches the Earth's surface.
  At the same time, scientists have discovered, the population of a species of salamander that lays its eggs in mountain lakes has declined....
• Earth and sky, woods and fields, lakes and rivers, the mountain and the sea, are excellent schoolmasters, and teach some of us more than we can ever learn from books.
  John Lubbock...
• Narrow-minded provincialism: Sad to say but true--I am more interested in the mountain lions of Utah
  he wild pigs of Arizona, than I am in the fate of all the Arabs of Araby, all the Wogs of Hindustan, all the Ethiopians of Abyssinia....
• Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types.
  But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime....
• The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic. -- Edward Abbey
• Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Bart: Is there maple syrup in this one? Smithers: There isn't any food in any of these trees.
  Please, Bart, we've got to hurry! I can't be the last one to reach the cabin....