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• All living things on earth are kindred.

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  Earth, Kindred, Living Things

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.109, Macmillan

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• Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

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  Gun, Hands, Molotov Cocktail

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

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• Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

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  Skins, Way, Beauty Is Only Skin Deep

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

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• I hate intellectual discussion. When I hear the words 'phenomenology' or 'structuralism', I reach for my buck knife.

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  Hate, Philosophy, School

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

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• What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.

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  Differences, Atheism, Lone Ranger

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

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• Filling out the form: Race? Human. Religion? Paiute. Occupation? Criminal anarchy. Hobbies? Survival with honor.

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  Race, Survival, Honor

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

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• Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.

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  Stars, Flower, Sleep

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

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• The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.

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  Feminist, Doe, Grievance

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

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• A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.

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  Miserable, Obsessed, Hard

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

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• Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.

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  Believe, Mind, Ghost

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

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• Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

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  Men, Blood, Three

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.23, RosettaBooks

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• Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms.

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  Deny, Platitudes, Implications

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.31, RosettaBooks

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• Terrorism: deadly violence against humans and other living things, usually conducted by government against its own people.

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  Government, People, Violence

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

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• Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.

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  Art, Expansion, Alternatives

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

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• I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.

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  Nuts, Fastidious, Fellows

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.16, RosettaBooks

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• The only thing left worth saving is wilderness.

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  Saving, Wilderness, Left

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• But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

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  Writing, Records, May

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

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• Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

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  Nature, Conservation, Form

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.48, University of Arizona Press

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• There are two kinds of people I cannot abide: bigots and any well-organized ethnic group.

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  Two, People, Groups

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

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• In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.

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  America, Rising, Levels

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

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• Man was created to complete the horse.

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  Horse, Men

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• A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat.

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  Cowboy, Boys, Hats

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

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• Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart.

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  Heart, Clouds, Intellect

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

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• Capitalism sounds good in theory but it just doesn't work.

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  Sound, Theory, Capitalism

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.151, Macmillan

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• Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'

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  Writing, Police, Musical

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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