Edward Abbey Quote

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.


Down the River, Part IV, Chapter 19 (p. 231)


The philosophers and the theologians have agreed, for three thousand years, that the perfect is immutable — that which cannot alter and cannot ever ...

The philosophers and the theologians have agreed, for three thousand years, that the perfect is immutable — that which cannot alter and cannot ever ...

The philosophers and the theologians have agreed, for three thousand years, that the perfect is immutable — that which cannot alter and cannot ever ...

The philosophers and the theologians have agreed, for three thousand years, that the perfect is immutable — that which cannot alter and cannot ever ...