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Lauren Klibingat AP English Literature Period 1 2/22/2006 Multiple viewpoints In Edward Abbey's essay on Aravaipa Canyon, he comments on the enigmatic nature of life on Earth. He states that "the world is not nearly big enough and that any portion of its surface, left unpaved and alive, is infinitely rich in details and relationships, in wonder, beauty, mystery, comprehensible only in part. The very existence of existence is itself suggestive--- of the unknown--- not a problem, but a mystery." Our environmental problems, moreover, are cultural. Politics, for example, are being destroyed by a bad way of life, not bad politics. And to see that the problem is far more than political is to return to reality, and look at what reality permits us to see. In Mark Twain's essay, Thoughts of God, he seeks to explain how God differentiates between a human being and what...

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