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Edward Abbey Quotes: Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.
         

Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.


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I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.



Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

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