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EDWARD ABBEY The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny. EDWARD ABBEY England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, te... EDWARD ABBEY I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to ... EDWARD ABBEY A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. EDWARD ABBEY One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast....a ... EDWARD ABBEY I have enough money in the bank now to buy enough beans and rice for twenty-five years. To the end (... EDWARD ABBEY We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of ... EDWARD ABBEY Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to... EDWARD ABBEY Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing ... EDWARD ABBEY We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with ... EDWARD ABBEY WEALTH AND HOW TO ACHIEVE IT: Let us define the wealthy man as he who has everything he desires. ... EDWARD ABBEY That's the best thing about walking, the journey itself. It doesn't matter much whether you get wher... EDWARD ABBEY No tyranny is so irksome as petty tyranny: the officious demands of policemen, government clerks, an... EDWARD ABBEY Why wilderness? Because we like the taste of freedom; because we like the smell of danger. EDWARD ABBEY We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never ... EDWARD ABBEY I wish to be an inspector of volcanoes. I want to study cloud formations and memorize the w... EDWARD ABBEY One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' ca... EDWARD ABBEY I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff... EDWARD ABBEY It is my belief that the writer, the free-lance author, should be and must be a critic of the societ... EDWARD ABBEY Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. EDWARD ABBEY Mildly talented in a variety of ways but with no genuine ability in any one field, she was like me, ... EDWARD ABBEY If you can't solve their problems with therapy, solve them with drinking EDWARD ABBEY Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they... EDWARD ABBEY You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light. EDWARD ABBEY