Edward Abbey Needs No Defense: A Response to Amy Irvine’s “Desert Cabal”… by Tonya Audyn Morton by stiles • July 30, 2019 • 71 Comments A BRIEF NEW INTRODUCTION by Jim Stiles Edward Abbey once said, “The idea of wilderness needs no defense.” Nor should anyone have to defend Abbey, or whatever his personal flaws might have been, thirty years after he died —especially in… Read more →