A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
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A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, "Water" (p. 104)
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A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.
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A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even more
grotesque, like a soul without a body.
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
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A true conservative must necessarily be a conservationalist.
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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
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According to the current doctrines of mysticoscientism, we human animals are really and actually nothing but 'organic patterns of nodular energy composed of collocations of infinitesimal points oscillating on the multi-dimensional coordinates of the space-time continuum'. I'll have to think about that. Sometime. Meantime, I'm going to gnaw on this sparerib, drink my Blatz beer, and contemplate the a posteriori coordinates of that young blonde over yonder, the one in the tennis skirt, tying her shoelaces.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (1990)
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All living things on earth are kindred.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, "Serpents of
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An empty man is full of himself.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (1990)
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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Anarchism is not a romantic fable but the hardheaded realization, based on five thousand years of experience, that we cannot entrust the management of our lives to kings, priests, politicians, generals, and county commissioners.
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As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is *action*. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth.
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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, "Bedrock and Paradox" (p. 233)
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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game
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Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.
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Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
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Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (1990)
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Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
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Cheer up, comrades: You can't feel as bad as you look. Or look as bad as you feel.
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or
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Climbing K2 or floating the
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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and powerful.
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Democracy--rule by the people--sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, "Clifforse and Bayonets" (p. 37)
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Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.
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Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are--retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey
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Freedom begins between the ears.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (1990)
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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (1990)
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Girls, like flowers, bloom but once. But once is enough.
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God bless
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God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (1990)
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God still sits on the throne, the devil is a liar. You may be going through a tough time right now but God is getting ready to bless you in a way that only He can. Keep the faith. My instructions were to pick four people that I wanted God to bless, and I picked you. Please pass this to at least four people you care about.
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Grown men do not need leaders.
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Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, "Water" (p. 114)
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey "The Second Rape of the West" (p. 183)
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, "Water" (p. 113)
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers — obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
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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.
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I am my brother's keeper, says the chickenshit liberal. Perhaps he does not
realize that he now has more than 2 1/2 billion brothers.
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, Down the River (1982)
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I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (1990)
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact
I work only under duress.
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I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. (Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!)
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, "Clifforse and Bayonets" (p. 25)
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I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey ,Down the River (1982)
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If
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If the end does not justify the means - what can?
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (1990)
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In my case, saving the world was only a hobby.
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In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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In the modern techno-industrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.
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Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the
basic tyrant of the modern age.
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It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.
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It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and
preserve it.
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I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, "The First Morning" (p. 7)
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I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, "Serpents of
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Knowing now what we have learned, unless the need were urgent, I could no more sink the blade of an ax into the tissues of a living tree than I could drive it into the flesh of a fellow human.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, "The Crooked Wood" (p. 208)
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Life is hard? True--but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in
our bodies.
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Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
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Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.
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Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.
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Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, Down the River (1982)
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, "Clifforse and Bayonets" (p. 26)
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, Earth Apples (1994)
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily
understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving.
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My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.
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New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in
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No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
A Voice Crying in the Wilderness
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One final paragraph of advice: Do not burn yourself out. Be as I am-a reluctant enthusiast... a part time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it is still there. So get out there and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, encounter the grizz, climb the mountains. Run the rivers, breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, that lovely, mysterious and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves, keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to your body, the body active and alive, and I promise you this much: I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those deskbound people with their hearts in a safe deposit box and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this: you will outlive the bastards.
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, Seldom Seen Smith in The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975), p. 313
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One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers.
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Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (1990)
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Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
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Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, Down the River (1982)
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.
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Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
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Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of
inspector of desert water holes.
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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
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Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (1990)
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Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
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Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (1990)
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The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.
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The function of an ideal is not to be realized but, like that of the North
Star, to serve as a guiding point.
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey "Shadows from the Big Woods" (p. 223)
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The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only home we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need if only we had the eyes to see.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, Down the River (1982)
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The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey
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The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (1990)
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The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war.
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.
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The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich.
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The sense of justice springs from self-respect; both are coeval with our
birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice; it usually takes
twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it
out of them.
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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
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The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.
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The "Terror" of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (1990)
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey
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There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated and anyone can transport himself anywhere, instantly. Big deal, Buckminster. To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, "Walking" (p. 205)
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There has got to be a God; the world could not have become so fucked up by
chance alone.
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love
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There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is
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This is the most beautiful place on earth.
There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary. A houseboat in Kashmir, a view down Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, a gray gothic farmhouse two stories high at the end of a red dog road in the Allegheny Mountains, a cabin on the shore of a blue lake in spruce and fir country, a greasy alley near the Hoboken waterfront, or even, possibly, for those of a less demanding sensibility, the world to be seen from a comfortable apartment high in the tender, velvety smog of Manhattan, Chicago, Paris, Tokyo, Rio, or Rome — there's no limit to the human capacity for the homing sentiment.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, "The First Morning" (p. 1)
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There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.
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To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, "The Dead Man at Grandview Point" (p. 186)
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Truth is merely common sense, say the naive realist. Really? Then where,
precisely, is the location of--a rainbow? In the air? In the eye? In
between? Or somewhere else?
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Voluntary simplicity.
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We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)
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We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may not ever need to go there.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, "The Heart of Noon" (p. 116)
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We spend more time working for our labor-saving machines than they do working for us.
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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of
love.
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What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
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What is truth? I dont know and I'm sorry I brought it up.
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (1990)
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What's the difference between a whore and a congressman? A congressman makes more money.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (1990)
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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When I hear the word "culture", I reach for my checkbook.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey
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When I write 'paradise' I mean not only apple trees and golden women but also scorpions and tarantulas and flies, rattlesnakes and Gila monsters, sandstorms, volcanoes and earthquakes, bacteria and bear, cactus, yucca, bladderweed, ocotillo and mesquite, flash floods and quicksand, and yes — disease and death and the rotting of flesh.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, Down the River (1982)
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey
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When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.
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When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (1990)
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Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
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Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
Quotations/Quotes:- Edward Abbey, Down the River (1982)
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Without courage, all other virtues are useless.
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Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable.
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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