The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.
More Quotes from Edward Paul Abbey:
The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyond reach it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth, the earth which bore us and sustains us, the only paradise we shall ever know, the only paradise we ever need, if only we had the eyes to see.... No, wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, as vital to our lives as water and good bread.Edward Paul Abbey
The only thing worse than a knee-jerk liberal is a knee-pad conservative.
Edward Paul Abbey
Beware the writer who always encloses the word 'reality' in quotation marks He's trying to slip something over on you. Or into you.
Edward Paul Abbey
Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime.
Edward Paul Abbey
What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June.
Edward Paul Abbey
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