“Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it's not the beer cans that are ugly; it's the highway that is ugly.”

— Edward Abbey

"The Second Rape of the West," The Journey Home, 1977
The Journey Home (1977)

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American author and essayist 1927–1989

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