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Edward Abbey Inspirational Quotes (393)

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When I hear the word 'culture', I reach for my checkbook.
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Beware of the man who has no enemies.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to break....I sometimes choose to think, no doubt perversely, that man is a dream, thought an illusion, and only rock is real. Rock and sun.
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You can't belay a man who's falling in love.
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All revolutions have failed? Perhaps. But rebellion for good cause is self- justifying -- a good in itself. Rebellion transforms slaves into human beings, if only for an hour.
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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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The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.
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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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The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.
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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.
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Chastity is more a state of mind than of anatomy.
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High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring
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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
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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.
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Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.
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A rancher is a farmer who farms the public lands with a herd of four-legged lawn mowers.
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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It is an author's most solemn obligation to honor truth. If the free and independent writer does not speak truth to power, who will?
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In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.
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I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.
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