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• I am an enemy of the State. But isn't everyone?

  Edward Abbey

  Enemy, States

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

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• There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.

  Edward Abbey

  Beautiful, Men, Down And

  Edward Abbey (1988). “One Life at a Time, Please”, p.148, Macmillan

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• An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

  Edward Abbey

  Philosophy, Political, Growth

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.114, University of Arizona Press

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• I stand for what I stand on.

  Edward Abbey

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• Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Our Love, Unfaithful

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

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• The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

  Edward Abbey

  Enough Already, Missionary, Savages

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

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• Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

  Edward Abbey

  Humility, Virtue

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

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• To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.

  Edward Abbey

  Rocks, Bird, Sun

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.186, University of Arizona Press

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• A house built on greed cannot long endure.

  Edward Abbey

  Long, House, Greed

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

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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.

  Edward Abbey

  Gun, People, Natural

  "Abbey's Road". Book by Edward Abbey ("In Defense of the Redneck", p. 168), 1979.

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• You can't belay a man who's falling in love.

  Edward Abbey

  Falling In Love, Fall, Men

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

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• The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

  Edward Abbey

  Pride, Grace, Needs

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

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• Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

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  Baseball, Hero, Player

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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• Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

  Edward Abbey

  Book, Bed, Cadavers

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

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• When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

  Edward Abbey

  Friendship, Dog, Silly

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

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• Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily
  understand: Man is not a lovable animal.

  Edward Abbey

  Animal, Men, Lovable

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• Simplicity is always a virtue.

  Edward Abbey

  Life, Simplicity, Virtue

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

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• I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as the grasp of a child's hand in your own, the flavor of an apple, the embrace of a friend or lover, the silk of a girl's thigh, the sunlight on the rock and leaves, the feel of music, the bark of a tree, the abrasion of granite and sand, the plunge of clear water into a pool, the face of the wind - what else is there? What else do we need?

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  Girl, Children, Hands

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.156, Holt Paperbacks

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• Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure.

  Edward Abbey

  Adventure, Climbing, Half

  "Saving Nature's Legacy : Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity" by Reed F. Noss, Allen Y. Cooperrider, and Rodger Schlickeisen, (p. 338), 1994.

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• One word is worth a thousand pictures. If it's the right word.

  Edward Abbey

  Thousand, One Word, Right Words

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.11, Macmillan

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• In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

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  Knowing, Culture, Modern

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• So I lived alone.
  The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally.

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  Pants, Firsts

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.198, Simon and Schuster

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• Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us-if only we were worthy of it.

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  Lying, Greed, Paradise

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.167, Simon and Schuster

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• I wish to be
  an inspector of volcanoes.
  I want to study cloud formations
  and memorize the wind
  and learn by heart the habits of
  the ponderosa pine.

  Edward Abbey

  Nature, Heart, Clouds

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• Life is already too short to waste on speed.

  Edward Abbey

  Hiking, Waste, Life Is

  "The Journey Home : Some Words in Defense of the American West" by Edward Abbey, (p. 205), 1977.

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