Wilderness begins in the human mind.
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Transparent and intangible as sunlight, yet always and everywhere present, [the desert] lures a man on and on, from the red-walled canyons to the smoke-blue ranges beyond, in a futile but fascinating quest for the great, unimaginable treasure which the desert seems to promise. Once caught by this golden lure you become a prospector for life.
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We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here.
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Sand becomes a part of our existence which, like breathing, we take for granted.
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In our weird taboo-ridden cult-obsessed hypersensitive creed-crazy culture, anyone who attempts to examine tough social questions in a logical, analytic, empiric manner, must learn to expect a blizzard of rhetorical abouse from all sides.
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