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• Wilderness begins in the human mind. -- Edward Abbey
• The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners--and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• You cannot reshape human nature without mutilating human beings. -- Edward Abbey
• One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience.
  But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals. -- Edward Abbey...
• Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it. -- Edward Abbey
• The ideal robot, after all, is simply a properly processed human being. -- Edward Abbey
• Why I oppose the nuclear-arms race: I prefer the human race. -- Edward Abbey
• There has never yet been a human society worthy of the name of civilization.
  Civilization remains a remote ideal. -- Edward Abbey...
• The feminist notion that the whole of human history has been nothing but a vast intricate conspiracy by men to enslave their wive
  mothers, daughters, and sisters presents us with an intellectual neurosis for which we do not yet have a name....