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Needs Quotes by Edward Abbey
- The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.
- Grown men do not need leaders.
- Who needs astrology? The wise man gets by on fortune cookies.
- We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope.
- We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to go there.…
- Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the…
- We know this apodictic rock beneath our feet. That dogmatic sun above our heads. The world of dreams, the agony of love and the foresight…
- Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
- In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate.…
- The rich can buy everything but health, virtue, friendship, wit, good looks, love, pride, intelligence, grace, and, if you need it, happiness.
- We need wilderness because we are wild animals. Everyone needs a place where he can go to go crazy in peace. For the terror, freedom,…
- To the question: Wilderness, who needs it? Doc would say: Because we like the taste of freedom, comrades. Because we like the smell of danger.…
- I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But…
- Under the desert sun, in the dogmatic clarity, the fables of theology and the myths of classical philosophy dissolve like mist. The air is clean,…
- A man could be a lover and defender of the wilderness without ever in his lifetime leaving the boundaries of asphalt, powerlines, and right-angled surfaces.…
- What we need now are heroes and heroines, about a million of them, one brave deed is worth a thousand books. Sentiment without action is…
- I am pleased enough with the surfaces - in fact they alone seem to me to be of much importance. Such things for example as…
- All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
- The love of wilderness is more than a hunger for what is always beyong reach; it is also an expression of loyalty to the earth,…
- 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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- I hope to make movies that are so small they don't need to make anything to be profitable. — J. J. Abrams
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino