Edward Abbey quotes - page 4

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. (Edward Abbey)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws. View quote
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Guns don't kill people; people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair. View quote
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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. View quote
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I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings. View quote
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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. View quote
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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose. View quote
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What's more American than violence?" Hayduke wanted to know. "Violence, it's as American as pizza pie. View quote
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My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving. (Edward Abbey)
Women truly are better than men. Otherwise, they'd be intolerable. View quote
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit. View quote
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream. View quote
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An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human. View quote
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How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it. View quote
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If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers. View quote
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Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation. View quote
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When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws. View quote
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Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger. View quote
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Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. (Edward Abbey)
Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter. View quote
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Wilderness. The word itself is music. View quote
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I stand for what I stand on. View quote
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A house built on greed cannot long endure. View quote
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