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• Only the half-mad are wholly alive.

  Edward Abbey

  Mad, Half, Alive

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

  Edward Abbey

  Coffee, Evil, Giving

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• Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.

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  Enjoy Life, Fear Of Death, Enjoy

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

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• May your trails be dim, lonesome, stony, narrow, winding and only slightly uphill. May the wind bring rain for the slickrock potholes fourteen miles on the other side of yonder blue ridge. May God's dog serenade your campfire, may the rattlesnake and the screech owl amuse your reverie, may the Great Sun dazzle your eyes by day and the Great Bear watch over you by night.

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  Dog, Rain, Eye

  "Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside". Book by Edward Abbey ("Preface" (dated October 1983), pp. 16-17), 1984.

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• Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

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  Inspiring, Peace, Diversity

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

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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.

  Edward Abbey

  Sex, Children, Sorry

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

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• The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

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  Enough Already, Missionary, Savages

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.9, RosettaBooks

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• It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

  Edward Abbey

  Tasks, Answers, Subversive

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

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• The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.

  Edward Abbey

  Journey, Keys, Hiking

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• The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws.

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  Saws, Common, Terrorism

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.53, RosettaBooks

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• Football is a game for trained apes. That, in fact, is what most of the players are -- retarded gorillas wearing helmets and uniforms. The only thing more debased is the surrounding mob of drunken monkeys howling the gorillas on.

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  Football, Player, Games

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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• Beware of the man who has no enemies.

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Enemy, He Man

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

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• Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.

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  Animal, Hunting, Moral

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.38, RosettaBooks

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• A drink a day keeps the shrink away.

  Edward Abbey

  Drinking, Beer, Drunk

  Edward Abbey, R. Crumb (1985). “The Monkey Wrench Gang”, p.127, Dream Garden Press

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• Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.

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  Thinking, Thought Provoking, Innovation

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.158, University of Arizona Press

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• America My Country: last nation on earth to abolish human slavery; first of all nations to drop the nuclear bomb on our fellow human beings.

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  Country, America, Slavery

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.56, RosettaBooks

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• The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

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  Peace, Real, War

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

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• Walking takes longer... than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed.

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  Life, Native American, Hiking

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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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• In the Soviet Union, government controls industry. In the United States, industry controls government. That is the principal structural difference between the two great oligarchies of our time.

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  Government, Two, Differences

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.19, RosettaBooks

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• I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.

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  Atheist, Earth, Being True

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.184, Simon and Schuster

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• Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative sparsity of the flora and fauna: life not crowded upon life as in other places but scattered abroad in spareness and simplicity, with a generous gift of space for each herb and bush and tree, each stem of grass, so that the living organism stands out bold and brave and vivid against the lifeless sand and barren rock. The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life-forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom.

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  Flower, Space, Light

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.26, University of Arizona Press

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• The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wives, mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name.

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  Daughter, Mother, Men

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

  Edward Abbey

  Men, Sheep, Land

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

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• Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.

  Edward Abbey

  Thinking, Thinking Alike

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