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• I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.

  Edward Abbey

  Atheist, Earth, Being True

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.

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  Teacher, Littles, Administrators

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.53, RosettaBooks

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• Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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

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• A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.

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  Men, Cities, Feet

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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• May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.

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  Dog, Rain, Eye

  "Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside". Book by Edward Abbey ("Preface" (dated October 1983), pp. 16-17), 1984.

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• All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

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  Government, Enemy, Needs

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

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• How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas.

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  Home, Rocks, Fog

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

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• A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

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  Drinking, Beer, Drunk

  Edward Abbey, R. Crumb (1985). “The Monkey Wrench Gang”, p.127, Dream Garden Press

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• We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men.

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  Girl, Boys, Men

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• Humans were free before the word freedom became necessary.

  Edward Abbey

  Humans

  Edward Abbey (1988). “One Life at a Time, Please”, p.28, Macmillan

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• Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.

  Edward Abbey

  Running, Lakes, Tree

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• Why this cult of wilderness?... because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger.

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  Smell, Taste, Wilderness

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.59, Macmillan

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• I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

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  America, Saving, Wilderness

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

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• A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.

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  Nature, Civilization, Names

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• It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

  Edward Abbey

  Tasks, Answers, Subversive

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

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• The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

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  Nature, Air, Earth

  "The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("Come On In", p. 88), 1977.

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• Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

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  Law, Liberty, Citizens

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

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• Homosexuality, like androgyny, might be an instinctive racial response to overpopulation, crowding, and stress. Both flourish when empire reaches its apogee.

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  Stress, Might, Empires

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• A pretty girl can do no wrong.

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  Girl, Pretty Girl, Can Do

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

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• All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.

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  Self, Political, Revolution

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• Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.

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  Church, Bars, Four

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

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  Desert, Intimate, Draws

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

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• Beware of the man who has no enemies.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Enemy, He Man

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

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• The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

  Edward Abbey

  Peace, Real, War

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

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• Women who love only women may have a good point.

  Edward Abbey

  May

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