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• What draws us into the desert is the search for something intimate in the remote. -- Edward Abbey
• Saving the world was merely a hobby. My *vocation* has been that of inspector of desert water holes.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Question: Why are camels called ships of the desert?
  Answer: Because they are filled with Arab semen....
• My sole literary ambition is to write one good novel, then retire to my hut in the desert, assume the lotus position, compose my mind and senses, and sink into meditation, contemplating my novel.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Why did CNN cancel that cool "Desert Storm" show?
• When people say that the desert is lifeless, it just makes me want to grab them by the collar and yell, "Why you stupid, stupid bastard!
  Then I drive them out into the desert to where the circus is, and point out the many forms of zebra and clown life....
• Why do I write? I write to entertain my friends and to exasperate our enemies.
  To unfold the folded lie, to record to truth of our time, and, of course, to promote esthetic bliss....
• Why must love always be accompanied--sooner or later--by sorrow and pain?
  Why not? Because pure bliss is for pure idiots. -- Edward Abbey...
• Brown spots in the Desert - By Squat and Leavi