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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
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Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
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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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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.
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I was once invited to take part in a heroic, possibly fatal enterprise, but I declined, mainly on account of sloth.
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Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising.
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Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea....
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Going to bed with Gertrude Stein, Jeane Kirkpatrick, Susan Sontag, or Margaret Thatcher: There are some things one prefers neither to do nor to have done.
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My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving.
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Humankind will not be free until the last Kremlin commissar is strangled with the entrails of the last Pentagon chief of staff.
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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.
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A mother's sorrow is more true, honorable, and beautiful than the detachment of the sage.
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Life is hard? True - but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies.
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For women, the sexual act is a means to a higher end. For a man, it is an end in itself.
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What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June?
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When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble.
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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.
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Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.
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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
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Industrialism, whether of the capitalist or socialist coloration, is the
basic tyrant of the modern age.
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Baseball is a slow, sluggish game, with frequent and trivial interruptions, offering the spectator many opportunities to reflect at leisure upon the situation on the field: This is what a fan loves most about the game
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No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.
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Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
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The Latino military fare badly when they stumble into war with the gringos. But in the torture, murder, and massacre of their own people, they have always performed with brilliance and elan.
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Charity should be spontaneous. Calculated altruism is an affront.
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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.
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Mental degeneracy may be caused by lead poisoning. Or by a poor dip in the gene pool.
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The feminists have a legitimate grievance. But so does everyone else.
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The most painful moral struggles are not those between good and evil, but between the good and the lesser good.
Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
Edward Abbey
Born:
January 29, 1927
Died:
March 14, 1989
(aged 62)
Bio:
Edward Paul Abbey was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views.
Known for:
Desert Solitaire (1968)
The Monkey Wrench Gang (1975)
The Fool's Progress (1988)
The Brave Cowboy (1956)
Hayduke Lives
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