In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and hon…

Edward Abbey
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In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal. ✨ Edward Abbey (2006). Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast
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The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.12, RosettaBooks
One day in Dipstick, Nebraska, or Landfill, Oklahoma, is worth more to me than an eternity in Dante's plastic Paradiso, or Yeats's gold-plated Byzantium. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the … ▶
There are only two kinds of books -- good books and the others. The good are winnowed from the bad through the democracy of time. ✨ Edward Abbey (2015). A Voice Crying in the Wilderness, p.31, Rosett … ▶
Men come and go, cities rise and fall, whole civilizations appear and disappear-the earth remains, slightly modified. The earth remains, and the heartbreaking beauty where there are no hearts to brea … ▶
When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense. ✨ Edward … ▶

In the land of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, one brave and honest man is bound to create a scandal. ✨ Edward Abbey (2006). Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

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