We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men.
Edward AbbeyA society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
Edward AbbeyThe gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it.
Edward Abbey