Edward Abbey quote database

"Do not burn yourselves out. Be a reluctant enthussiast .. A part time crusader, a half hearted fantic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. So get out thereand hunt and fish and mess around with your friends, ramble out yonder and explore the forests, climb the mountains bag the peaks run the rivers. Breathe deep of that yet sweet and lucid air, sit quietly for a while and contemplate the precious stillness, the lovely mysterious and awesome space. Enjoy yourselves keep your brain in your head and your head firmly attached to the body, the body active and alive and I promise you this much; I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk bound men and women with their hearts in safe deposit boxes, and their eyes hypnotised by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will out live the bastards!" Edward Abbey
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There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.
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Democracy--rule by the people--sounds like a fine thing; we should try it sometime in America.
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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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Zen: the sound of the ax chopping. Chopping logic.
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