The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need — if only we had the eyes to see.

—Edward Abbey, “Down the River”, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness, 1968, p. 190. (Wikiquote)

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