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[chnlisle]

"Phoenix, Arizona: an oasis of ugliness in the midst of a beautiful wasteland."

[kcowyo]

"Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit."

"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."

"It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave."
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[SunMan]

“When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem”

[billharr]

“There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.”

Edward Abbey quote

I did not know who he was this is a great thread.

[ski3pin]

"Freedom begins between the ears."
– Edward Abbey

[highz]

"Time and the winds will sooner or later bury the Seven Cities of Cibola - Phoenix, Tucson, Albuquerque, all of them - under dunes of glowing sand, over which blue-eyed Navajo bedouin will herd their sheep and horses, following the river in winter, the mountains in summer, and sometimes striking off across the desert toward the red canyons of Utah where great waterfalls plunge over silt-filled, ancient, mysterious dams."

- Edward Abbey

Even if our best efforts to protect the land from too many people fail, Mother Earth will have the final word.

[Lighthawk]

Damn, I can't lay my hands on anyof my Ed Abbey. I condensed my library recently to clear a bedroom and now I can't findanything.

Thank goodness for google, here goes:

"So I lived alone.
The first thing I did was take off my pants. Naturally. Next I unloaded the horse, smacked her on the rump and sent her back to the village."

-Edward Abbey,
Desert Solitaire, a season in the wilderness, 1968

[ski3pin]

Once upon a time, I dreamed of becoming a great man. Later, a good man. Now, finally, I find it difficult enough and honor enough to be – a man.
– Edward Abbey

[busboy66]

This is killer stuff:

One final paragraph of advice: do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am — a reluctant enthusiast... a part-time crusader, a half-hearted fanatic. Save the other half of yourselves and your lives for pleasure and adventure. It is not enough to fight for the land; it is even more important to enjoy it. While you can. While it’s still here. So get out there and 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 a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.

From a speech to environmentalists in Missoula, Montana, and in Colorado, which was published in High Country News, (24 September 1976), under the title "Joy, Shipmates, Joy!", as quoted in Saving Nature's Legacy : Protecting and Restoring Biodiversity (1994) by Reed F. Noss, Allen Y. Cooperrider, and Rodger Schlickeisen

Courtesy wikiquote.org

[busboy66]

I wonder how Candy felt about that quote? Good one!

"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."