Edward Abbey Short Quotes

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I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

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A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

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Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.

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The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.

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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.

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Science is the whore of industry and the handmaiden of war.

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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.

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Concrete is heavy; iron is hard - but the grass will prevail.

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

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

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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

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Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried.

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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.

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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

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Some lives are tragic, some ridiculous. Most are both at once.

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

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Every man should be his own guru; every woman her own gurette.

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

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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.

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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!

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Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.

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A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.

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A pretentious fad-chaser…the pom-pom girl of American letters.

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Great art is indefinable but that's all right; it exists anyway.

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Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.

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Christian theology: nothing so grotesque could possibly be true.

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You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings.

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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

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Home is where, when you have to go there, you probably shouldn't.

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