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Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.
Category: Abortion Author: Edward Abbey
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Category: Consumerism Author: Edward Abbey
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When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
Category: Dogs Author: Edward Abbey
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The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.
Category: Driving Author: Edward Abbey
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You can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamn contraption and walk, better yet crawl, on hands and knees, over the sandstone and through the thornbrush and cactus. When traces of blood begin to mark your trail, you'll see something, maybe.
Category: Driving Author: Edward Abbey
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Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris.
Category: Environment Author: Edward Abbey
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For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the potted plant!
Category: Flowers Author: Edward Abbey
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Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime.
Category: Food Author: Edward Abbey
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There is this to be said for walking: It's the one mode of human locomotion by which a man proceeds on his own two feet, upright, erect, as a man should be, not squatting on his rear haunches like a frog.
Category: Walking Author: Edward Abbey
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