Quote #16

Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.

More from Edward Abbey

  1. Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quic…
  2. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may not ever need to go there.
  3. A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
  4. To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.
  5. Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.
  6. Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism.
  7. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
  8. Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

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