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We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase 'to live like men.
We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase 'to live like men.
Approximate author period: c. 1958 AD · modern
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- Edward Abbey
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- Approximate author period: c. 1958 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from life dates 1927 to 1989; Wikidata Q937610, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q937610 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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