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Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.

Quote by Edward Abbey about things

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!

Quote by Edward Abbey about flowers, magic

Grown men do not need leaders.

Quote by Edward Abbey about need, man

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Quote by Edward Abbey about ideology

If the end does not justify the means - what can?

Quote by Edward Abbey about end

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Quote by Edward Abbey about anger, nothing, love, man

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

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No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, and electromechanical gadgets.

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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.

Quote by Edward Abbey about stupidity, real estate, man

Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.

Quote by Edward Abbey about hell, old, olderness

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

Quote by Edward Abbey about culture

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

Quote by Edward Abbey about power

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government, I says, but don't insult me poor bleedin country.

Quote by Edward Abbey about country, contentment

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.

Quote by Edward Abbey about society, contentment

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

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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.

Quote by Edward Abbey about science

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

Quote by Edward Abbey about idea

The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Quote by Edward Abbey about tragedy, enemies, home, war, real estate, death, man

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Quote by Edward Abbey about logic, science, experience, reason, thinking