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• The consolation of reading biography: Most great men have led lives even more miserable than our own.
  -- Edward Abbey...
• A formal education can sometimes be broadening but more often merely flattens. -- Edward Abbey
• One can imagine a sane, healthy, cheerful human society based on no more than the principles of common sense, as validated each day by work, play, and living experience.
  But this remains the most utopian and fantastic of ideals. -- Edward Abbey...
• Life imitates art--but badly. -- Edward Abbey
• Music is a savage art, a measured madness. -- Edward Abbey
• Consciousness is art.
• Men love their ideas more than their lives. And the more preposterous the idea, the more eager they are to die for it.
  And to kill for it. -- Edward Abbey...
• Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our antimaterialist, otherworldly, New Age, spiritual types.
  But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu, and seaweed slime....
• Wilderness begins in the human mind. -- Edward Abbey