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• The mountains are fountains of men as well as of rivers, of glaciers, of fertile soil.
  The great poets, philosophers, prophets, able men whose thoughts and deeds have moved the world, have come down from the mountains - mountain dwellers who have grown strong there with the forest trees in Nature's workshops....
• Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rd-world black, lesbian, militant poets, have rights, too.
  Especially the right to exist. -- Edward Abbey...
• When the writer has done his best, he then should proceed to do his second best. -- Edward Abbey
• My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns.
  We have the best politicians that money can buy. -- Edward Abbey...
• When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love. -- Edward Abbey
• There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face.
  Once and for all and at last. -- Edward Abbey...