"Love of Heaven slanders earth; be true to the earth . . . We in America are being systematically robbed. Robbed of the most elementary decencies of life - clean air, sunlight, pure unmedicated water . . . , silence, solitude and space, even time, even death. Instead? . . .
Tee Vee. Hi-Fi. Super-Duper. Glittering shit. And, finally, morphine. Not socialism, not capitalism is the enemy but - industry and technology carried to excess, to and beyond the point of madness . . .
Back in Abbey's country again. I walk in beauty, I go in beauty . . . Red naked rock again, the enormous and dazzling sky . . . magnificence everywhere I look . . . The brave, sweet, heartbreaking beauty of all wild and lonely things."
Edward Abbey
Photo: Joanne hiking along Professor Creek in MaryJane Canyon, Castle Valley, near Moab, UT, April 21, 2012. Yes, those colors really ARE real!
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