A crowded society is a restrictive society; an overcrowded society becomes an authoritarian, repressive and murderous society. - Edward Abbey

We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foreknowledge of death. That is all we know.

Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.

I am convinced now that the desert has no heart, that it presents a riddle which has no answer, and that the riddle itself is an illusion created by some limitation or exaggeration of the displaced human consciousness.