Edward Abbey

(30 votes)   What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.

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(23 votes)   Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

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(21 votes)   Our 'neoconservatives' are neither new nor conservative, but old as Bablyon and evil as Hell.

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(20 votes)   Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.

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(20 votes)   Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

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(17 votes)   Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

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

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(17 votes)   You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

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(16 votes)   Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best.

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(13 votes)   Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top.

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(13 votes)   The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

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(12 votes)   Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

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(10 votes)   The missionaries go forth to Christianize the savages - as if the savages weren't dangerous enough already.

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(10 votes)   When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.

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