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• Nothing could be more reckless than to base one's moral philosophy on the latest pronouncements of science.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• One thing worse than self-hatred is chiggers. -- Edward Abbey
• One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Show me a squirrel's nest and I'll show you a nutcracker suite.
• Nothing could be older than the daily news, nothing deader than yesterday's newspaper.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• I come more and more to the conclusion that wilderness, in America or anywhere else, is the only thing left that is worth saving.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it.
  And to kill for it. -- Edward Abbey...