A World Without Open Country Would Be

You Can't Belay A Man Who's Falling In Love.

To Be Alive Is To Take Risks; To Be Always Safe And Secure Is Death.

We Spend More Time Working For Our Labor-saving Machines Than They Do Working For Us.

If We Had The Power Of Ten Shakespeares Or A Dozen Mozarts, We Could Not Produce Anything Half So Marvelous As One Ordinary Human Child.

We Are Slaves In The Sense That We Depend For Our Daily Survival Upon An Expand-or-expire Agro-industrial Empire—a Crackpot Machine—that The Specialists Cannot Comprehend And The Managers Cannot Manage. Which Is, Furthermore, Devouring World Resources At An Exponential Rate. We Are, Most Of Us, Dependent Employees. …edward Abbey (1927-1989)