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

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul. #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

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 · 3h

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

Meantime, I'm going to gnaw on this sparerib, drink my Blatz beer, and contemplate the a posteriori coordinates of that young blonde over yonder, the one in the tennis skirt, tying her shoelaces. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 7h

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 · 8h

The greater your dreams, the more terrible your nightmares. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

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

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

When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

'There is no situation so bad that the cops can't make it worse.' #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

The world is full of burled and gnarly knobs on which you can hang a metaphysical system. If you must. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

As a confirmed melancholic, I can testify that the best and maybe only antidote for melancholia is action. However, like most melancholics, I suffer also from sloth. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

How long does it take to write a good book? All of the years that you've lived. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

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 · 19h

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. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

"Finally the moon came up, a golden globe behind the rocky fretwork of the horizon, a full and delicate moon that floated lightly as a leaf upon the dark slow current of the night. A face that watched me from the other side" #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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

There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Great art is never perfect; perfect art is never great. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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 · 05/10/2026

I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chain saws. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

There is no trajectory so pathetic as that of an artist in decline. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Life is hard? True--but let's love it anyhow, though it breaks every bone in our bodies. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Only a fool would leave the enjoyment of rainbows to the opticians. Or give the science of optics the last word on the matter. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

My computer tells me that in twenty-five years there will be no more computers. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

But what is happening today, in North America, is not rational use but irrational massacre. Man the Pest, multiplied to the swarming stage, is attacking the remaining forests like a plague of locusts on a field of grain. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

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 · 04/10/2026

'A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.' #Abbey #EdAbbey #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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 · 04/10/2026

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 · 04/10/2026

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 · 04/10/2026

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 · 04/10/2026

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 · 04/10/2026

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

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

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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