Edward Abbey quotes - page 3

The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature. (Edward Abbey)
I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. View quote
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One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill. View quote
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Whatever we cannot easily understand we call God; this saves much wear and tear on the brain tissues. View quote
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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 Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature. View quote
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness. View quote
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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. View quote
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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view. View quote
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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful. View quote
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness. View quote
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All living things on earth are kindred. (Edward Abbey)
Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins. View quote
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. The best of both worlds. View quote
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I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie. View quote
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Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything. View quote
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom. View quote
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I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake. View quote
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I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain. View quote
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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! View quote
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I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun. View quote
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Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart. (Edward Abbey)
To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me. View quote
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls. View quote
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All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires. View quote
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful. View quote
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