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• Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.

  Edward Abbey

  Views, People, Important

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

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• My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.

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  Ambition, Someday, Enough

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.63, Holt Paperbacks

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• If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

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  Real, Purpose, Want

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

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• It's true: Every time you kill an elk, you're saving some cow's life.

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  Saving, Cows, Elk

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• Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.

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  Beautiful, Rebel, Defiance

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

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• As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

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  War, Government, Insanity

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

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• I believe in nothing that I cannot touch, kiss, embrace.... The rest is only hearsay.

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  Believe, Kissing, Belief

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.14, RosettaBooks

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• All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. But perhaps it is true. And is the evolutionary line from protozoan to Spinoza any less certain? That also may be true. We are obliged, therefore, to spread the news, painful and bitter though it may be for some to hear, that all living things on earth are kindred.

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  Brother, Men, Secret

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

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• Not all questions can be answered.

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

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• Longevity, like intelligence and good looks and health and strength of character, is largely a matter of genetic heritage. Choose your parents with care.

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  Character, Parent, Looks

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

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• We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight of death. That is all we know. And all we need to know? Challenge that statement.

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  Dream, Agony, Feet

  "The Monkey Wrench Gang". Book by Edward Abbey (p. 312), August 1, 1975.

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• We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

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  Sick, Abnormal, Normal

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

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• Might does not make right but it sure makes what is.

  Edward Abbey

  Doe, Might

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

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• Beware of your wishes: They will probably come true.

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  Wish

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

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  Wise, Men, Astrology

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

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• I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

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  Nature, Flower, Long

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.

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  Sea, Sky, Perfect

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.147, Macmillan

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• Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.

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  Suicidal, Journey, Should Have

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

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• Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

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  Love, Inspirational, Anger

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

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• There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.

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  Abiding, Satisfaction, Unshakable

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• Jesus don't walk on water no more; his feet leak.

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  Jesus, Feet, Water

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

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• One must be reasonable in one's demands on life. For myself, all that I ask is: (1) accurate information; (2) coherent knowledge; (3) deep understanding; (4) infinite loving wisdom; (5) no more kidney stones, please.

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  Deep Understanding, Demand, Stones

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

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• There never was a good war or a bad revolution.

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  Veterans Day, Peace, War

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.140, Macmillan

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• I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

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  Animal, Favors, Liberation

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

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• I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

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  Men, People, And Love

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

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