“I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.”

— Edward Abbey , book Down the River

Down the River (1982)

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American author and essayist 1927–1989

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