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• Not all questions can be answered.

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

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• We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

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  Journey, Snakes, Hiking

  Edward Abbey (1968). “Desert Solitaire”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe.

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  Cost Of Living, Air, Rising

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

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• The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.

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  Government, Political, Purpose

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

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• A world without open country would be universal jail.

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  Country, Jail, Would Be

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.105, Macmillan

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• In all of nature, there is no sound more pleasing than that of a hungry animal at its feed. Unless you are the food.

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  Animal, Sound, Hungry

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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• I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.

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  Suffering, Despise, Stills

  Edward Abbey (1996). “The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader”, p.151, Macmillan

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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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• Life is unfair. And it's not fair that life is unfair.

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  Life Is, Unfair, Fairs

  Edward Abbey (1998). “The Fool's Progress: An Honest Novel”, p.14, Macmillan

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• We live in a society in which it is normal to be sick; and sick to be abnormal.

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  Sick, Abnormal, Normal

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

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• A giant thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

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  Joy, Giants, Thirst

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• Are people more important than the grizzly bear? Only from the point of view of some people.

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  Views, People, Important

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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• I do not believe in personal immortality; it seems so unnecessary. Show me one man who deserves to live forever.

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  Death, Believe, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.12, RosettaBooks

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• My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough.

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  Ambition, Someday, Enough

  Edward Abbey (1984). “Beyond the Wall: Essays from the Outside”, p.63, Holt Paperbacks

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• If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.

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  Real, Purpose, Want

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

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• Humility is a virtue when you have no other.

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  Humility, Virtue

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

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• The rebel is doomed to a violent death. The rest of us can look forward to sedated expiration in a coma inside an oxygen tent, with tubes inserted in every bodily orifice.

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  Oxygen, Rebel, Looks

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.22, RosettaBooks

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• Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.

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  Wise, Men, Astrology

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

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• You can't belay a man who's falling in love.

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  Falling In Love, Fall, Men

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

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• A genius is always on duty; even his dreams are tax deductible.

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  Dream, Genius, Duty

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

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• Grown men do not need leaders.

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  Leadership, Maturity, Men

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.17, RosettaBooks

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• I'm in favor of animal liberation. Why? Because I'm an animal.

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  Animal, Favors, Liberation

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.47, RosettaBooks

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• I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.

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  Men, People, And Love

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

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• Jane Austen: Getting into her books is like getting in bed with a cadaver. Something vital is lacking; namely, life.

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  Book, Bed, Cadavers

  Edward Abbey (2015). “A Voice Crying in the Wilderness”, p.32, RosettaBooks

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• There are circumstances in which suicide presents a viable option; a workable alternative; the only sensible solution.

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  Suicide, Alternatives, Circumstances

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

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