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Littles Quotes by Edward Abbey
- Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons,…
- If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate…
- Recorded history is largely an account of the crimes and disasters committed by banal little men at the levers of imperial machines.
- Let us praise the noble turkey vulture: No one envies him; he harms nobody; and he contemplates our little world from a most serene and…
- Henry James was our master of periphrasis -- the fine art of saying as little as possible in the greatest number of words.
- Little boys love machines; girls adore horses; grown-up men and women like to walk.
- Most academic economists know nothing of economy. In fact, they know little of anything.
- Why administrators are respected and schoolteachers are not: An administrator is paid a lot for doing very little, while a teacher is paid very little…
- England has never enjoyed a genuine social revolution. Maybe that's what's wrong with that dear, tepid, vapid, insipid, stuffy, little country.
- The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of…
- And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
- Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they…
- Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit, and as vital to our lives as water and good bread. A civilization…
- We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
- Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.
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- If my doctor told me I had only six minutes to live, I wouldn't brood. I'd type a little faster. — Isaac Asimov
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