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Edward Abbey Inspirational Quotes (393)

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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.
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A journey into the wilderness is the freest, cheapest, most nonprivileged of pleasures. Anyone with two legs and the price of a pair of army surplus combat boots may enter.
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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
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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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If a man’s imagination were not so weak, so easily tired, if his capacity for wonder not so limited, he would abandon forever such fantasies of the supernal. He would learn to perceive in water, leaves and silence more than sufficient of the absolute and marvelous, more than enough to console him for the loss of the ancient dream.
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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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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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This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
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In marriage, the occasional catastrophic crisis is easier to manage than the daily routine.
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Simply because humankind have the power now to meddle or 'manage' or 'exercise stewardship' in every nook and cranny of the world does not mean that we have a right to do so. Even less, the obligation.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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I have found through trial and error that I work best under duress. In fact I work only under duress.
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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
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In social affairs, I'm an optimist. I really do believe that our military- industrial civilization will soon collapse.
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The author: an imaginary person who writes real books.
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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.
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In the dog-eat-dog economy, the Doberman is boss.
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To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad?
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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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A pretty girl can do no wrong.
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A world without open country would be universal jail.
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