EDWARD ABBEY QUOTES VI

American author (1927-1989)

A house built on greed cannot long endure.

EDWARD ABBEY

Postcards from Ed

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I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.

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attributed, Saving Nature's Legacy

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

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Abbey's Road

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An empty man is full of himself.

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)


Reason is the newest and rarest thing in human life, the most delicate child of human history.

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)

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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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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

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The Monkey Wrench Gang

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Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during a dark night in February.

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)


One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)

Tags: business


The conservatives love their cheap labor; the liberals love their cheap cause.

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The Serpents of Paradise

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With the neutron bomb, which destroys life but not property, capitalism has found the weapon of its dreams.

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)

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Culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down the advance of life.

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"Episodes and Visions", Desert Solitaire

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A city man is at home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike.

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A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto)

Tags: cities