“All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.”

—  Edward Abbey

“Fire Lookout: Numa Ridge”, p. 57
The Journey Home (1977)
Source: The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West

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American author and essayist 1927–1989

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