Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.
- Edward Abbey
Funny, Like, Floats, Stir
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothin' can beat teamwork.
- Edward Abbey
Dumb, Sometimes, Pretty, Stupidity
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
- Edward Abbey
Observation, Few Men, Fewer, Founded
A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
- Edward Abbey
Patriotism, Country, Always, Patriot
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.
- Edward Abbey
Nature, Mountains, May, Lonesome
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.
- Edward Abbey
Die, Young, Other, Modern War
Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
- Edward Abbey
Love, Anger, Cares, Implies
Climbing K2 or floating the Grand Canyon in an inner tube; there are some things one would rather have done than do.
- Edward Abbey
Some, Rather, Some Things, Floating
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.
- Edward Abbey
Power, Dangerous, Always, Attracts
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
- Edward Abbey
Culture, Coffee, Like, Runs
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.
- Edward Abbey
Science, Thought, Reason, Verified
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
- Edward Abbey
Nature, Bricks, Preferences, Spontaneous
Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.
- Edward Abbey
Failure, Supernatural, Reflects
Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.
- Edward Abbey
How, Taxation, Sheep
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.
- Edward Abbey
Country, Like, About, Bloody
That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
- Edward Abbey
More, Less, Which, Glut
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
- Edward Abbey
Purpose, Tiny, Provide, Shade
You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
- Edward Abbey
Light, Darkness, Study, Flooding
If the end does not justify the means - what can?
- Edward Abbey
End, Means, Does, Justify
Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
- Edward Abbey
Civilization, Guns, Cop, Hand
A drink a day keeps the shrink away.
- Edward Abbey
Day, Away, Shrink, Keeps
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
- Edward Abbey
Growth, Cancer, Ideology, Sake
Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.
- Edward Abbey
New, Conservative, Nor, Evil
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.
- Edward Abbey
Nature, Wilderness, Spirit, Luxury
The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
- Edward Abbey
Idea, Needs, Defense, Defenders
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
- Edward Abbey
Problem, Friend, His, Best Friend
The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.
- Edward Abbey
Savages, Missionaries, Were, Forth
Grown men do not need leaders.
- Edward Abbey
Men, Need, Grown, Leaders
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