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• Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

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  Nature, Conservation, Form

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.48, University of Arizona Press

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• Civilization, like an airplane in flight, survives only as it keeps going forward.

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  Airplane, Civilization, Flight

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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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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  Army, Journey, Two

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• Beauty is only skin deep; ugliness goes all the way through.

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  Skins, Way, Beauty Is Only Skin Deep

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.24, RosettaBooks

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• What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of
  love.

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  Arms, Reason

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.49, RosettaBooks

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• What's the difference between the Lone Ranger and God? There really is a Lone Ranger.

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  Differences, Atheism, Lone Ranger

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

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• The axiom of conditioned repetition, like the binomial theorem, is nothing but a piece of insolence.

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  Pieces, Insolence, Repetition

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

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• Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy.

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  Philosophy, Men, Two

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

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• My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers.

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  Years, Twenties, Computer

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.11, RosettaBooks

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• In America, as elsewhere, the general irritability level keeps rising.

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  America, Rising, Levels

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.15, RosettaBooks

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• I'm a fastidious sort of fellow, fond of watermelon and buckbrush nuts.

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  Nuts, Fastidious, Fellows

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.16, RosettaBooks

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• Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.

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  Giants, Fool, Institutions

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.18, RosettaBooks

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• In social institutions, the whole is always less than the sum of its parts. There will never be a state as good as its people, or a church worthy of its congregation, or a university equal to its faculty and students.

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  People, Church, Students

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.20, RosettaBooks

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• King Arthur and his armored goons of the Round Table functioned as the Politburo of a slave state: Camelot. Of all who have written on the Matter of Arthur, from Malory to White, only Mark Twain understood this. But Mark Twain was a great writer.

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  Kings, White, Tables

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

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• Three words remain that can yet stir the blood of man: the word 'rebellion'; the word 'revolt'; the word 'revolution'.

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  Men, Blood, Three

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.23, RosettaBooks

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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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  Character, Men, Race

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.29, RosettaBooks

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• Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

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  Art, Philosophy, Crude

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.29, RosettaBooks

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• In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.

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  Writing, Facts, Fidelity

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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• Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

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  Sea, Critics, Rail

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.30, RosettaBooks

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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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  Events, Fiction, Written

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.33, RosettaBooks

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• Too many American authors have a servile streak where their backbone should be. Where's our latest Nobel laureate? More than likely you'll find him in the Rose Garden kissing the First Lady's foot.

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  Kissing, Garden, Feet

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.35, RosettaBooks

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• There comes a point, in literary objectivity, when the author's self- effacement is hard to distinguish from moral cowardice.

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  Self, Objectivity, Moral

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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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  Independent, Honor, Doe

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

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• In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty.

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  Lying, Book, Writing

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.36, RosettaBooks

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• Poor Dimitri Shostakovich: In the Soviet Union, he was condemned as being too radical; in the West, for being too conservative. He could please no one but the musical public. He revenged himself on both by writing a short piece called 'March of the Soviet Police.'

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  Writing, Police, Musical

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.41, RosettaBooks

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