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• Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

  Edward Abbey

  Photography, Jobs, Light

  Edward Abbey (1954). “Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader”, E P Dutton

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• No man is wise enough to be another man's master. Each man's as good as the next -- if not a damn sight better.

  Edward Abbey

  Wise, Men, Sight

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

  Edward Abbey

  Government, Clerks, Gadgets

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.

  Edward Abbey

  Charity, Spontaneous, Affront

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.15, RosettaBooks

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• A man is not aware of his virtues (if any). Nevertheless, one hopes that they exist.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Virtue, Nevertheless

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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• The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn.

  Edward Abbey

  Rain, Fire, Light

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.13, University of Arizona Press

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• Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.

  Edward Abbey

  Writing, People, Challenges

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.

  Edward Abbey

  Enemy, Corporations, Natural

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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• Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role.

  Edward Abbey

  Government, Liberty, Roles

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

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• Music begins where words leave off. Music expresses the inexpressible. If there is a Kingdom of Heaven, it lies in music.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, Heaven, Kingdoms

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.40, RosettaBooks

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• The rifle and handgun are 'equalizers' -- the weapons of a democracy. Tanks and bombers represent dictatorship.

  Edward Abbey

  Democracy, Tanks, Rifles

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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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.

  Edward Abbey

  Horse, Central Park, Years

  Edward Abbey (1954). “Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader”, E P Dutton

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• It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.

  Edward Abbey

  Funny, Dog, Easy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.

  Edward Abbey

  Land, Four, Herds

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.

  Edward Abbey

  Funny, Dog, Boss

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• I, too, believe in fidelity. But how can I be true to one woman without being false to all the others?

  Edward Abbey

  Believe, Fidelity, Being True

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

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• The very poor are strictly materialistic. It takes money to be a mystic.

  Edward Abbey

  Materialistic, Poor, Mystic

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

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• Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of
  inspector of desert water holes.

  Edward Abbey

  Water, Hobbies, Desert

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.28, RosettaBooks

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• The world is older and bigger than we are. This is a hard truth for some folks to swallow.

  Edward Abbey

  World, Bigger, Folks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• War: First day in the U.S. Army, the government placed a Bible in my left hand, a bayonet in the other.

  Edward Abbey

  War, Army, Government

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies. To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss.

  Edward Abbey

  Lying, Writing, Enemy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.37, RosettaBooks

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• Scientific method: There's a madness in the method.

  Edward Abbey

  Scientific Method, Madness, Method

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

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• My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Utah, Arizona

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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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.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Sex, Fun

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.123, Macmillan

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• Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine tree, cut my initials in the bark of an aspen, get bit by a mosquito, see a mountain bluebird, find a big blue columbine, get lost in the firs, hike above timberline, sunbathe on snow and eat some ice, climb the rocks and stand in the wind at the top of the world on the peak of Tukuhnikivats.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Cutting, August

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.128, Macmillan

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