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Especially Quotes by Edward Abbey
- Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.
- Romanticism was more than merely an alternative to a sterile classicism; romanticism made possible, especially in art, a great expansion of the human consciousness.
- In the modern world, all literary art is necessarily political -- especially that which pretends not to be.
- Rocks, like louseworts and snail darters and pupfish and 3rd-world black, lesbian, militant poets, have rights, too. Especially the right to exist.
- Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions…
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