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The weather here is windy, balmy, sometimes wet. Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement - mating season. And lots of fresh rabbit meat hopping about to feed the young ones with.
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Vonnegut is one of America's basic artists, a true and worthy heir to the grand tradition of Thoreau, Whitman, Twain, Dreiser, Traven, Tom Wolfe (the real Tom Wolfe, I mean) and Steinbeck. In other words, he writes out of a concern for justice, love, honesty, and hope.
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Should a writer have a social purpose? Any honest writer is bound to become a critic of the society he lives in, and sometimes, like Mark Twain or Kurt Vonnegut or Leo Tolstoy or Francois Rabelais, a very harsh critic indeed. The others are sycophants, courtiers, servitors, entertainers. Shakespeare was a sychophant; however, he was and is also a very good poet, and so we continue to read him.
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Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.
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Edward Abbey |
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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.
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Edward Abbey |
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I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.
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Edward Abbey |
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All living things on earth are kindred.
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Edward Abbey |
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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Edward Abbey |
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Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.
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Edward Abbey |
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A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.
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Edward Abbey |
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Growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness.
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Edward Abbey |
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I am not an atheist but an earthiest.
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Edward Abbey |
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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism.
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Edward Abbey |
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Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wilderness and freedom, lay the trap of madness."
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Edward Abbey |
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Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.
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Edward Abbey |
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My job is to save the fucking wilderness. I don't know anything else worth saving.
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Edward Abbey |
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Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone -- and to no one.
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Edward Abbey |
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.
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Edward Abbey |
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Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
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Edward Abbey |
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There's beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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Edward Abbey |
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Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
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Edward Abbey |
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Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.
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Edward Abbey |
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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Edward Abbey |
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Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.
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Edward Abbey |
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The plow has probably done more harm --\xa0in the long run --\xa0than the sword.
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Edward Abbey |
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Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.
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Edward Abbey |
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Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.
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Edward Abbey |
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The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
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Edward Abbey |
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
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Edward Abbey |
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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Edward Abbey |
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The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.
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Edward Abbey |
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Freedom begins between the ears.
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Edward Abbey |
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What's the difference between a whore and a congressman? A congressman makes more money.
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Edward Abbey |
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When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
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Edward Abbey |
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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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Edward Abbey |
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An empty man is full of himself.
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Edward Abbey |
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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Edward Abbey |
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The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
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Edward Abbey |
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God is a sound people make when they're too tired to think anymore.
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