“I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.”

—  Edward Abbey

A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

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American author and essayist 1927–1989

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