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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Technology
Performing
Fire
Woods
High
Drawing
Simple
Tasks
Water
Delight
Done
Service
Primordial
Great
Spring
Chopping
Building
Wood

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