Disabled Ecologies Quotes

“More critically, his book is rooted in a desire for connection to the desert—a desire I identify with—however different my sensibility is from Abbey’s. Unlike Abbey, who wants to “possess the desert . . . embrace the entire scene intimately, deeply, totally, as a man desires a beautiful woman,”56 I do not want to “possess” the desert. I would prefer to be in solidarity with it.”
― Sunaura Taylor, Disabled Ecologies: Lessons from a Wounded Desert