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

Edward Abbey

Purpose

Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.

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.

Edward Abbey

Society

Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

Edward Abbey

Sheep

That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.

The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.

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

Edward Abbey

Missionaries

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

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.

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

Edward Abbey

Friend

Man

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

You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.

Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

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

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

Edward Abbey

Men

Observation