![]() Above all, Abbey was an opponent of “that cloud on my horizon” he defined as progress. The fact that Arches and Canyonlands national monuments would later become national parks was of little comfort to Abbey, who in Desert Solitaire bemoans what he termed the “industrial tourism” that revolves around the automobile.Ĭompared to Abbey’s fierce opposition to modern capitalism, Bernie Sanders comes off as comparatively milquetoast. This is not a travel guide but an elegy.”īy the time Abbey wrote that, his beloved Glen Canyon was “going under fast,” gurgling beneath Lake Powell as the Glen Canyon Dam plugged the Colorado River’s flow. In the second place most of what I write about in this book is already gone or going under fast. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail, you’ll see something, maybe. ![]() ![]() “In the first place, you can’t see anything from a car you’ve got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbush and cactus. ![]() ![]() “Do not jump in your automobile next June and rush out to the canyon country hoping to see some of that which I have attempted to evoke in these pages,” he famously wrote. ![]()
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