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Ed Abbey Bot

@edabbeybot.bsky.social
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Just a robot that posts Ed Abbey quotes once a day, because we all need a bit more Cactus Ed in our lives. #monkeywrenchgang #edAbbey #earthfirst

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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
[1/2] Late in August the lure of the mountains becomes irresistible. Seared by the everlasting sunfire, I want to see running water again, embrace a pine tree, cut my initials in the bark of an aspen, get bit by a mosquito, see a mountain bluebird, find a big blue columbine, get
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 11/06/2026
[2/2] lost in the firs, hike above timberline, sunbathe on snow and eat some ice, climb the rocks and stand in the wind at the top of the world on the peak of Tukuhnikivats. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Gaze not too long into the abyss, lest the abyss gaze into thee. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 09/06/2026
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? -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
[1/2] Most every charge you level at American capitalism applies with equal force to communism, with this nice difference, that the Reds make no pretense at such frivolities as civil liberties or environmentalism. The differences in degree are so great that they result in a
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 08/06/2026
[2/2] radical difference in kind. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 07/06/2026
I've got a crooked elbow and I generally say my prayers with one leg on a brass rail. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 06/06/2026
To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger. But, thought Hayduke, what about the smell of fear, Dad? -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
[1/2] Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
[2/2] 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. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 04/06/2026
The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
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? -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
My friends and I live in the American SW because we love it, and love it for its own sake - not merely because it's the last region of the forty-eight states to be buried under asphalt and greed. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
Wilderness and motors are incompatible and the former can best be experienced, understood and enjoyed when the machines are left behind where they belong -- on the superhighways and in the parking lots, on the reservoirs and in the marinas. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 31/05/2026
Ive never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn’t have written much better myself. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Gaze not too long into the abyss, lest the abyss gaze into thee. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
There is a way of being wrong which is also sometimes necessarily right. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
You accuse me of wishing to keep the southwest empty. But it is not empty, it is full to its limits with beauty and terror, life and death, loneliness and joy, grandeur and and heorism. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Instant communication is not communication at all but merely a frantic, trivial, nerve-wracking bombardment of cliches, threats, fads, fashions, gibberish and advertising. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 26/05/2026
Anyone not paranoid in this world must be crazy. . . . Speaking of paranoia, it's true that I do not know exactly who my enemies are. But that of course is exactly why I'm paranoid. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
[1/2] The shock of the real. For a little while we are again able to see, as the child sees, a world of marvels. For a few moments we discover that nothing can be taken for granted, for if this ring of stone is marvelous then all which shaped it is marvelous, and our journey here
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 25/05/2026
[2/2] on earth, able to see and touch and hear in the midst of tangible and mysterious things-in-themselves, is the most strange and daring of all adventures. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
[1/3] it will be objected that a constantly increasing population makes resistance and conservation a hopeless battle. this is true. unless a way is found to stabilize the nation's population, the parks can not be saved. or anything else worth a damn. wilderness preservation, like
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
[2/3] a hundred other good causes, will be forgotten under the overwhelming pressure of a struggle for mere survival and sanity in a completely urbanized, completely industrialized, ever more crowded environment. for my own part i would rather take my chances in a thermonuclear
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
[3/3] war than live in such a world. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
[1/2] The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
[2/2] catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Let our people travel light and free on their bicycles—nothing on the back but a shirt, nothing tied to the bike but a slicker, in case of rain. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 21/05/2026
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
With an intelligence too fine to be violated by ideas, she had learned that she was searching not for self-transformation (she liked herself) but for something good to do. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
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. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
[1/2] Industrial tourism is a threat to the national parks. But the chief victims of the system are the motorized tourists. They are being robbed and robbing themselves. So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
[2/2] 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. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 17/05/2026
One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 14/05/2026
Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Grown men do not need leaders. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
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. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
The extreme clarity of the desert light is equaled by the extreme individuation of desert life forms. Love flowers best in openness and freedom. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
[1/2] There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 09/05/2026
[2/2] other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that’s patriotism. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Music clouds the intellect but clarifies the heart. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that’s patriotism. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 03/05/2026
A life without tragedy would not be worth living. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
[1/2] The fire. The odor of burning juniper is the sweetest fragrance on the face of the earth, in my honest judgment; I doubt if all the smoking censers of Dante's paradise could equal it. One breath of juniper smoke, like the perfume of sagebrush after rain, evokes in magical
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 02/05/2026
[2/2] catalysis, like certain music, the space and light and clarity and piercing strangeness of the American West. Long may it burn. -Ed Abbey
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Ed Abbey Bot @edabbeybot.bsky.social · 01/05/2026
Do not burn yourselves out. Be as I am - a reluctant enthusiast, a part time crusader, a half hearted fanatic. -Ed Abbey
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