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The philosophers and the theologians have agreed, for three thousand years, that the perfect is immutable — that which cannot alter and cannot ever be altered. They were wrong. We were wrong. Glen Canyon was destroyed. Everything changes, and nothing is more vulnerable than the beautiful.
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To the east, under the spreading sunrise, are more mesas, more canyons, league on league of red cliff and arid tablelands, extending through purple haze over the bulging curve of the planet to the ranges of Colorado — a sea of desert.
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Edward Abbey
Born:
January 29, 1927
Died:
March 14, 1989
(aged 62)
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Edward Paul Abbey was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views.
Known for:
Desert Solitaire (1968)
The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)
The Fool's Progress (1988)
The Brave Cowboy (1956)
Hayduke Lives
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