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Edward Abbey Quote: “When a man must be afraid to drink freely from his country’s river and streams that country is no longer fit to live in.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night’s pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Beware of the man who has no enemies.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The death penalty would be even more effective, as a deterrent, if we executed a few innocent people more often.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Freedom begins between the ears.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “To be alive is to take risks; to be always safe and secure is death.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Death is every man’s final critic. To die well you must live bravely.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Is there a God? Who knows? Is there an angry unicorn on the dark side of the moon?”
Edward Abbey Quote: “We should restore the practice of dueling. It might improve manners around here.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtues; without courage, the other virtues are useless.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Art, science, philosophy, religion – each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Poetry – even bad poetry – may be our final hope.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Of course I litter the public highway. Every chance I get. After all, it’s not the beer cans that are ugly; it’s the highway that is ugly.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “It is not enough to understand the natural world; the point is to defend and preserve it.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Concrete is heavy; iron is hard – but the grass will prevail.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses...”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Life without music would be an intolerable insult.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The “terror” of the French Revolution lasted for ten years. The terror that preceded and led to it lasted for a thousand years.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Wilderness. The word itself is music.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “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.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they’ve wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture – that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “A drink a day keeps the shrink away.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Henry James was our master of periphrasis – the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “I am an enemy of the State. But isn’t everyone?”
Edward Abbey Quote: “The great question of life is not the question of death but the question of life. Fear of death shames us all.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “It is an author’s most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Scientific method: There’s a madness in the method.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “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.”
Edward Abbey Quote: “Paradise is the here and now, the actual, tangible, dogmatically real Earth on which we stand. Yes, God bless America, the Earth upon which we stand.”
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