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All forms of government are pernicious, including good government.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
Author
Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
Pernicious
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Liberty
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What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.
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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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Most of what we call the classics of world literature suggest artifacts in a wax museum. We have to hire and pay professors to get them read and talked about.
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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
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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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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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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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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
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Nothing can excel a few days in jail for giving a young man or woman a quick education in the basis of industrial society.
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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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We judge individual man and women as we do nations and races -- by the character of their achievement and by their achievement of character.
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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A world without huge regions of total wilderness would be a cage a world without lions and tigers and vultures and snakes and elk and bison would be - will be - a human zoo. A high-tech slum.
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Guns don't kill people people kill people. Of course, people with guns kill more people. But that's only natural. It's hard. But it's fair.
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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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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
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It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.
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