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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

Author: Edward Abbey (1927-1989) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 162 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Author: Edward Abbey (1927-1989) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 163 | Rank: 0 | Fav

What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

Author: Edward Abbey (1927-1989) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 171 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Edward Abbey (1927-1989) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 156 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Edward Abbey (1927-1989) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 162 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Edward Abbey (1927-1989) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 156 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Edward Abbey (1927-1989) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 165 | Rank: 0 | Fav

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

Author: Edward Abbey (1927-1989) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 150 | Rank: 0 | Fav

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

Author: Edward Abbey (1927-1989) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 203 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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.

Author: Edward Abbey (1927-1989) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 163 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Edward Abbey (1927-1989) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 177 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Edward Abbey (1927-1989) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 198 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Edward Abbey (1927-1989) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 215 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Edward Abbey (1927-1989) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 199 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Edward Abbey (1927-1989) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 178 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Edward Abbey (1927-1989) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 215 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Edward Abbey (1927-1989) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 222 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Edward Abbey (1927-1989) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 193 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Edward Abbey (1927-1989) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 178 | Rank: 0 | Fav

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

Author: Edward Abbey (1927-1989) | Theme: Unclasified | Clicks: 118 | Rank: 0 | Fav
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