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• Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience.

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  Philosophy, Buddhism, Common Sense

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

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• Be loyal to what you love, be true to the earth, fight your enemies with passion and laughter.

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  Love, Marriage, Laughter

  Edward Abbey, David Petersen (2003). “Confessions of a Barbarian: Selections from the Journals of Edward Abbey”, p.381, Big Earth Publishing

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• Beware of the man who has no enemies.

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  Men, Enemy, He Man

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

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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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  Wise, Wisdom, Men

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

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• All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?

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  Government, Enemy, Needs

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, 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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• 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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• 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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• Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean, the rock cuts cruelly into flesh; shatter the rock and the odor of flint rises to your nostrils, bitter and sharp. Whirlwinds dance across the salt flats, a pillar of dust by day; the thornbush breaks into flame at night. What does it mean? It means nothing. It is as it is and has no need for meaning. The desert lies beneath and soars beyond any possible human qualification. Therefore, sublime.

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  Philosophy, Lying, Mean

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• How strange and wonderful is our home, our earth, with its swirling vaporous atmosphere, its flowing and frozen liquids, its trembling plants, its creeping, crawling, climbing creatures, the croaking things with wings that hang on rocks and soar through the fog, the furry grass, the scaly seas.

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  Home, Rocks, Fog

  Edward Abbey (1954). “Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader”, E P Dutton

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• Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

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  Home, Heaven, Utopia

  Edward Abbey (1954). “Slumgullion stew: an Edward Abbey reader”, E P Dutton

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• To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.

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  Rocks, Bird, Sun

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.186, University of Arizona Press

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

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  Thinking, Thinking Alike

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• Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.

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  Law, Liberty, Citizens

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

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• Without courage, all other virtues are useless.

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  Useless, Virtue, Morose

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.113, University of Arizona Press

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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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• Every moment is precious. And precarious.

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  Moments, Precarious

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

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• The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares.

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  Dream, Nightmare, Terrible

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.26, RosettaBooks

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• This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of the ideal place, the right place, the one true home, known or unknown, actual or visionary.

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  Beautiful, Nature, Travel

  Edward Abbey (1988). “Desert Solitaire”, p.1, University of Arizona Press

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• What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote.

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  Desert, Intimate, Draws

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

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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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• 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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• The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.

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  Nature, Air, Earth

  "The Journey Home: Some Words in Defense of the American West". Book by Edward Abbey ("Come On In", p. 88), 1977.

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• Baseball serves as a good model for democracy in action: Every player is equally important and each has a chance to be a hero.

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  Baseball, Hero, Player

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

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• Some people write to please, to soothe, to console. Others to provoke, to challenge, to exasperate and infuriate. I've always found the second approach the more pleasing.

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  Writing, People, Challenges

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

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