All Edward Abbey Quotes
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
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Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
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Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
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Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
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There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
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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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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
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Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
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What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
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