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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
  - Edward Abbey more quotations on [Consumerism]
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.
  - Edward Abbey more quotations on [Dogs]
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.
  - Edward Abbey more quotations on [Environment]
The longest journey begins with a single step, not with a turn of the ignition key.
  - Edward Abbey more quotations on [Driving]
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.
  - Edward Abbey more quotations on [Driving]
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.
  - Edward Abbey more quotations on [Food]
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!
  - Edward Abbey more quotations on [Flowers]
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.
  - Edward Abbey more quotations on [Abortion]
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