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Category: Edward Abbey

When a man’s best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

Dog, Best Friend, Man

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Experience, Thought, Logic

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!

Myself, Flowers, Plant

Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit.

Luxury, Wilderness

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds.

Mountains, Clouds, Amazing

Belief in the supernatural reflects a failure of the imagination.

Imagination, Belief

The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other – instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

Home, Men, Tragedy

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

In any nation but the USA, it is taken for granted that a man of distinction, ability, wealth or power will keep a mistress and a few girlfriends on the side. Only in America, still suffering from its grotesque, hypocritical Puritan heritage, do we persist in attempting to deny and repeal a million years of basic primate biology.

morality, politicians, scandals

The one thing … that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. … Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it’s likely that no one is thinking at all.

fox-news, hate, intimidation, sheep-mentality

To make the distinction unmistakably clear: Civilization is the vital force in human history; culture is that inert mass of institutions and organizations which accumulate around and tend to drag down the advance of life; Civilization is Giordano Bruno facing death by fire; culture is the Cardinal Bellarmino, after ten years of inquisition, sending Bruno to the stake in the Campo di Fiori…

burnings, campo-di-fiori, civilization, clarity, culture, distinction, giordano-bruno, history, humanity, inquisition, vitality

Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

coffee, culture, gasoline