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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 9m

Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 1h

The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 2h

Among politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for "To hell with our children." #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 3h

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 4h

It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 5h

Enjoy our great American West -- climb those mountains, run those rivers, hike those canyons, explore those forests, and share in the bounty of wilderness, friendship, love, and the common effort to save what we love. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 6h

Most of us lead lives of chaotic improvisation from day to day, bawling for peace while plunging grimly into fresh disorders. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 8h

Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 10h

If industrial man continues to multiply his numbers and expand his operations he will succeed in his apparent intention, to seal himself off from the natural and isolate himself within a synthetic prison of his own making. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 11h

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 12h

When the biggest, richest, glassiest buildings in town are the banks, you know that town's in trouble. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 13h

[...] We will be strong, and bold, and happy, we will outlive our enemies, we will live to piss on their graves. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 14h

So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national parks and will never escape the stress and turmoil of the urban-suburban complexes which they had hoped, presumably, to leave behind for a while. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 15h

From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 16h

I am not an atheist but an earthiest. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 17h

Government should be weak, amateurish and ridiculous. At present, it fulfills only a third of the role. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 18h

Original sin, the true original sin, is the blind destruction for the sake of greed of this natural paradise which lies all around us - if only we were worthy of it. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 19h

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 20h

A house built on greed cannot long endure. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 22h

Women who love only women may have a good point. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 23h

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better cities to live in when their populations are doubled again and again. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

All men are brothers, we like to say, half-wishing sometimes in secret it were not true. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

But don't get discouraged comrades. Christ failed too. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development? #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Is it possible to grow wiser without knowing it? One hopes so. We all hope so. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

In order to write a book, it is necessary to sit down (or stand up) and write. Therein lies the difficulty. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The ever-rising cost of living: Someday soon, the corporate technicians will be locking meters on our noses and charging us a royalty on the air we breathe. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

There is a fine art to making enemies and it requires diligent cultivation. It's not as easy as it looks. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Every man has two vocations: his own and philosophy. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

Among politicians and businessman, Pragmatism is the current term for "To hell with our children." #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

All governments require enemy governments. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art; and (2) sedition. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I took the other road, all right, but only because it was the easy road for me, the way I wanted to go. If I've encountered some unnecessary resistance that's because most of the traffic is going the other way. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

What's the difference between a whore and a congressman? A congressman makes more money. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

The rich are not very nice. That's why they're rich. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

My books always make the best-seller lists in Wolf Hole, Arizona, and Hanksville, Utah. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Platitude: a statement that denies by implication what it explicitly affirms. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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