Rubber rants

Author Edward Abbey is known for sinuous sentences such as (from “Desert Solitaire”): “We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places.”

Such firebrand eloquence stirs a certain breed to righteous generosity, but Abbey’s refined rants aren’t easily shared. So Barry Sochat, of Rockville, Utah, found pithier ones and turned them into a collection of rubber stamps he sells at his website, rubberpoet.com, and at such Abbey-aficionado hubs as Back of Beyond Books, in Moab.

He also peddles quotes from naturalist John Muir and is thinking of adding aphorisms by the late conservationist Aldo Leopold to the mix of material nature preachers will no doubt use to spread the wilderness word, one envelope or restroom door at a time.