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Duke Caldwell
24551 Del Prado #3597 Dana Point, California 92629 dukephotography@yahoo.com |
Monument Valley Panorama, Utah/Arizona Border, Southwestern United States
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Devoted though we must be to the conservation cause,
I do not believe that any of us should give it all of our time or effort or heart...
Let us save at least half of our lives for the enjoyment
of this wonderful world which still exists.
Leave your dens, abandon your cars, and walk out into the mountains, the deserts,
the forest, the seashores.
Those treasures still belong to all of us.
Enjoy them to the full, stretch your legs, enliven your hearts
and we will outlive the greedy swine who want to destroy it all
in the name of what they call growth.
I do not believe that any of us should give it all of our time or effort or heart...
Let us save at least half of our lives for the enjoyment
of this wonderful world which still exists.
Leave your dens, abandon your cars, and walk out into the mountains, the deserts,
the forest, the seashores.
Those treasures still belong to all of us.
Enjoy them to the full, stretch your legs, enliven your hearts
and we will outlive the greedy swine who want to destroy it all
in the name of what they call growth.
Edward Abbey
High Country News
December 1976