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• The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

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  Nature, Human Nature, Domination

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.44, Macmillan

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• In everything but brains and brawn, women are vastly superior to men. A different race.

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  Men, Race, Brain

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.43, RosettaBooks

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• If, as some say, evil lies in the hearts and not the institutions of men, then there's hardly a distinction worth making between, say, Hitler's Germany and Rebecca's Sunnybrook Farm.

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  Lying, Heart, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.

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  Wrath, Lust, Next

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.

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  Games, Boredom, Despair

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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.

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  Country, Men, Rivers

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert solitaire: a season in the wilderness”

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• Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives; climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.

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  Running, Girlfriend, Husband

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• Generally speaking, it's a matter of only mild intellectual interest to me whether the earth goes around the sun or the sun goes around the earth. In fact, I don't care a rat's ass either way.

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  Intellectual, Earth, Care

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• 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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  Real, Journey, Hiking

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• It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.

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  Pain, Heart, Journey

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.49, Macmillan

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• I want my body to help fertilize the growth of a cactus or cliff rose or sagebrush or tree.

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  Rose, Tree, Growth

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• 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.

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  Beer, Ugly, Chance

  "The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("The Second Rape of the West"), 1977.

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• Anarchism? You bet your sweet betsy. The only cure for the ills of democracy is more democracy. Much more.

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  Sweet, Democracy, Cures

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• It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.

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  Christian, Atheist, Foxholes

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• J. Edgar Hoover, J. Bracken Lee, J. Parnell Thomas, J. Paul Getty -- you can always tell a shithead by that initial initial.

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  J Edgar Hoover, Parnell, Shitheads

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• What good is a Bill of Rights that does not include the right to play, to wander, to explore, the right to stillness and solitude, to discovery and physical freedom?

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  Freedom, Rights, Discovery

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• Wilderness begins in the human mind.

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  Mind, Wilderness, Humans

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.46, RosettaBooks

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• How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.

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  Evil, Easy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.

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  Home

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.10, Macmillan

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• I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.

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  Hero, Army, Men

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• It is the difference between men and women, not the sameness, that creates the tension and the delight.

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  Men, Differences, Delight

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

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• In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.

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  Military, Believe, Civilization

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• Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.

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  Mean, Exercise, Doe

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

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  Running, Coffee, Second Chance

  "Down the River". Book by Edward Abbey, 1982.

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• The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition.

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  Art, Responsibility, Two

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

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