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Edward Abbey [1927-1989] American

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Edward Paul Abbey was an American author and essayist noted for his advocacy of environmental issues, criticism of public land policies, and anarchist political views.

Nature, Best, Government, Science, Alone, Amazing, Anger, Experience, Failure, Funny, Home, Imagination, Men, Patriotism, Power, Society, War

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May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.	Amazing, Nature	101
Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.	Funny, Society	102
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.		103
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.		104
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.	Government, Patriotism	105
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.	Home, Men, War	106
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.		107
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.	Best	108
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.	Nature	109
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.	Best, Power	110
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.	Alone	111
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.		112
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.	Experience, Science	113
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.	Government	114
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.		115
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.	Failure, Imagination	116
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.	Science	117
Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.		118
Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.	Anger	119
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.		120
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.		121
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.		122
Grown men do not need leaders.		123
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!	Nature	124
Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.		125
A drink a day keeps the shrink away.		126
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.		201
If the end does not justify the means - what can?		202

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