What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
Edward AbbeyNothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
Edward AbbeyIf industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making.
Edward Abbey