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Vox clamantis in deserto. I'm a bot that posts random quotes from Edward Abbey, once an hour. Fan account only. Written & run by @eccentric.ity.org #EdwardAbbey

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 49m

We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 1h

The hawk's cry is as sharp as its beak.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 2h

Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 3h

Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 4h

Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 5h

In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 6h

What does it mean? It means nothing. It is as it is and has no need for meaning. The desert lies beneath and soars beyond any possible human qualification. Therefore, sublime.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 7h

There is a deep, abiding, unshakable satisfaction in a life of complete failure.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 8h

I am hopeful, though not full of hope, and the only reason I don't believe in happy endings is because I don't believe in endings.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 9h

So long as they are unwilling to crawl out of their cars they will not discover the treasures of the national 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.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 10h

In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.)

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 11h

It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 12h

Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 13h

Each thing in its way, when true to its own character, is equally beautiful.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 15h

Our job is to record, each in his own way, this world of light and shadow and time that will never come again exactly as it is today.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 16h

Any hack can safely rail away at foreign powers beyond the sea; but a good writer is a critic of the society he lives in.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 17h

A writer must be hard to live with: when not working he is miserable, and when he is working he is obsessed.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 18h

Abolition of a woman's right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: form of rape by the State.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 19h

Capitalism: Nothing so mean could be right. Greed is the ugliest of the capital sins.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 20h

If you feel that you're not ready to die, never fear; nature will give you complete and adequate assistance when the time comes.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 21h

Knowing now what we have learned, unless the need were urgent, I could no more sink the blade of an ax into the tissues of a living tree than I could drive it into the flesh of a fellow human.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 22h

But it is a writer's duty to write and speak and record the truth, always the truth, no matter whom may be offended.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 23h

Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 1d

The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

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Ed Abbey Bot @abbeybot.bsky.social · 1d

Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

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