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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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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.

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

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

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

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

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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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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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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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A good philosopher is one who does not take ideas seriously.

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

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We are all passengers on this little mossy ship, this delicate dory sailing round the sun that humans call the earth. Joy, shipmates, joy.

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If the life of natural things, millions of years old, does not seem sacred to us, then what can be sacred? Human vanity alone? Contempt for the natural world implies contempt for life. The domination of nature leads to the domination of human nature.

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Everyone should learn a manual trade: It's never too late to become an honest person.

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Civilization is the wild river; culture, 592,000 tons of cement.

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'Don't let yourself become cynical. Cynicism is a cheap emotion, a craven substitute for thought and action. Cynicism corrodes the will, dulls the conscience, blunts your sense of right and wrong... Stay alert to fine distinctions: become a pessimist like me.'

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It is not the writer's task to answer questions but to question answers. To be impertinent, insolent, and, if necessary, subversive.

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How to Avoid Pleurisy: Never make love to a girl named Candy on the tailgate of a half-ton Ford pickup during a chill rain in April out on Grandview Point in San Juan County, Utah.

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