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)

New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?

The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.

The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.

Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.

In the world of words, one of my best-loved tribes is the diatribe.