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Edward Abbey

"We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase 'to live like men."

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"We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase 'to live like men."

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"When we become quiet at the collapsed value system in our nation, iniquity and injustice would eventually overrun that nation if action is not taken promptly."

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"Our head is designed to broaden our perspective regarding the world around us."

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"You cannot see God until you notice people."

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"This ignorance of what to do with time is the number one reason why people get bored so easily when alone with nothing to do."

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"Has it never struck you that a man who does next to nothing but hears men's real sins is not likely to be wholly unaware of human evil?"

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"A heartful mind can always see better than mindless eyes."

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"Perhaps it is possible to discover more in silence than in speech. Or perhaps it is only that those who are silent among us learn to listen."

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"When someone finds his or her mind is not free or in mental bondage, such a person might as well not be free physically."

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"How had this happened? Everyone in the world knew more than us, about everything, and this I hated then found hugely comforting."

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"What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul."
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"A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis."
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"Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless. Therefore the frogs, the toads, keep on singing even though we know, if they don't, that the sound of their uproar must surely be luring all the snakes and ringtail cats and kit foxes and coyotes and great horned owls toward the scene of their happiness."
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"So I lived alone. The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally."
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"Grown men do not need leaders."
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"Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion."
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"Readers, not critics, are the people who determine a book's eventual fate."
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"Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing."
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"Not all questions can be answered."
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