"The only thing left worth saving is wilderness."
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Edward Abbey quotes (page 30 of 33)
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"I'd sooner exchange ideas with the birds on earth than learn to carry on intergalactic communications with some obscure race of humanoids on a satellite planet from the world of Betelgeuse."
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"I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible."
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"Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland."
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"Money confers the power to command the labor of others. Love of money is love of power. And love of power is the root of evil."
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"That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding."
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"Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world."
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"Metaphysics is a cobweb that the mind weaves around things."
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"I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun."
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"It seems clear at last that our love for the natural world-Nature-is the only means by which we can requite God's obvious love for it."
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"The national parks belong to everyone. To the people. To all of us. The government keeps saying so and maybe, in this one case at least, the government is telling the truth. Hard to believe, but possible."
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"A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed."
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"Shakespeare wrote great poetry and preposterous plays. Who really cares, for example, which petty tyrant rules Milan? Or who succeeds to the throne of Denmark? Or why the barons ganged up on Richard II?"
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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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"One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role and place in the community. I never felt that living in a city - as I once did for a couple of years."
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"Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper."
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"A cowboy is a farm boy in leather britches and a comical hat."
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"I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake."
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"The developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values."
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"The gurus come from the sickliest nation on earth to tell us how to live. And we pay them for it."
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