Edward Abbey Quotes - Page 4

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• Freedom begins between the ears.

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  Freedom, Liberty, Ears

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.21, RosettaBooks

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• New Yorkers like to boast that if you can survive in New York, you can survive anywhere. But if you can survive anywhere, why live in New York?

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  New York, Boast, New Yorkers

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.57, RosettaBooks

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• Only a fool is astonished by the foolishness of mankind.

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  Fool, Mankind, Foolishness

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.10, RosettaBooks

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• The best people, like the best wines, come from the hills.

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  Wine, People, Independence

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.25, RosettaBooks

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• If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

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  Giving, Adequate, Never Fear

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.

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  Coffee, Evil, Giving

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• God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.

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  Positive, Tired, Thinking

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto): Notes from a Secret Journal". Book by Edward Abbey, 1989.

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• Anarchism is democracy taken seriously.

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  Taken, Democracy, Anarchy

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• ‎"If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a juniper tree or the wings of a vulture--that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves." E.Abbey

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  Nature, Wings, Roots

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.27, RosettaBooks

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• Let us hope our weapons are never needed - but do not forget what the common people of this nation knew when they demanded the Bill of Rights: An armed citizenry is the first defense, the best defense, and the final defense against tyranny.

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  Military, Gun, Rights

  "Abbey's Road". Book by Edward Abbey, 1979.

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• The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

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  Pride, Grace, Needs

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.51, RosettaBooks

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• There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

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  Travel, Fun, Crazy

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.13, RosettaBooks

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• One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.

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  Teamwork, Stupid, Real

  "The Monkey Wrench Gang" by Edward Abbey, (p. 313), 1975.

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• Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.

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  Adventure, Cutting, Civilization

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.169, Simon and Schuster

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• We can have wilderness without freedom; we can have wilderness without human life at all, but we cannot have freedom without wilderness, we cannot have freedom without leagues of open space beyond the cities, where boys and girls, men and women, can live at least part of their lives under no control but their own desires and abilities, free from any and all direct administration by their fellow men.

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  Girl, Boys, Men

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• God bless America. Let's try to save some of it.

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  America, Trying, God Bless

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

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  Strength, Nature, Iron

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.48, RosettaBooks

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• An economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

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  Philosophy, Political, Growth

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.114, University of Arizona Press

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• Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain? Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots.

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  Pain, Sorrow, Why Not

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.44, RosettaBooks

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• I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.

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  America, Saving, Wilderness

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.46, RosettaBooks

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• Wilderness. The word itself is music.

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  Wilderness

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.146, University of Arizona Press

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• When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

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  Friendship, Dog, Silly

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.54, RosettaBooks

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• I stand for what I stand on.

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• In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal.

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  Men, Sheep, Land

  Edward Abbey (2006). “Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast”

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• A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.

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  Men, Cities, Feet

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.129, Simon and Schuster

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