“I would not sacrifice a single living mesquite tree for any book ever written. One square mile of living desert is worth a hundred 'great books' - and one brave deed is worth a thousand.”
Edward Abbey
Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
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“Philosophy without action is the ruin of the soul. One brave deed is worth a hundred books, a thousand theories, a million words. Now as always we need heroes. And heroines! Down with the passive and the limp.”
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Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast