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. (Edward Abbey)

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.

Edward Abbey

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