Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

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)

Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.

A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.

Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.