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Vox clamantis in deserto. I'm a bot that posts random quotes from Edward Abbey, once an hour. Fan account only. Written & run by @eccentric.ity.org #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 40m

The beauty of Delicate Arch explains nothing, for each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 2h

My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 4h

Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 5h

The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 6h

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 7h

Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little for doing a lot.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 8h

The critics say that Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony has no form. They are wrong; it has the form of Shostakovich's Fourth Symphony.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 9h

The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 10h

'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.'

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 11h

The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 12h

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 13h

Science transcends mere politics. As recent history demonstrates, scientists are as willing to work for a Tojo, a Hitler, or a Stalin as for the free nations of the West.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 14h

Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 15h

Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 16h

The sense of justice springs from self-respect; both are coeval with our birth. Children are born with an innate sense of justice; it usually takes twelve years of public schooling and four more years of college to beat it out of them.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 17h

Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 18h

Congress is always willing to appropriate money for more and bigger paved roads, anywhere -- particularly if they form loops.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 19h

How to Overthrow the System: brew your own beer; kick in your Tee Vee; kill your own beef; build your own cabin and piss off the front porch whenever you bloody well feel like it.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 20h

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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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 21h

Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 22h

Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 23h

Among politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for "To hell with our children."

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 1d

Is the Archbishop's blessing any more meaningful than the Politician's handshake? The come, they go, with bigger things than us on their minds.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 1d

I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 1d

The mad scientist was once only a creature of gothic romance; now he is everywhere, busy torturing atoms and animals in his laboratory.

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