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Place Quotes by Edward Abbey
- In the first place you can't see anything from a car; you've got to get out of the goddamned contraption and walk, better yet crawl,…
- This is the most beautiful place on Earth. There are many such places. Every man, every woman, carries in heart and mind the image of…
- 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…
- It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
- Nature, like Miamonides said, is mainly a good place to throw beer cans on Sunday afternoons.
- Quantum mechanics provides us with an approximate, plausible, conjectural explanation of what actually is, or was, or may be taking place inside a cyclotron during…
- What our economists call a depressed area almost always turns out to be a cleaner, freer, more livable place than most.
- A city man is a home anywhere, for all big cities are much alike. But a country man has a place where he belongs, where…
- One of the pleasant things about small town life is that everyone, whether rich or poor, liked or disliked, has some kind of a role…
- Every important change in our society, for the good, at least, has taken place because of popular pressure-pressure from below, from the great mass of…
- 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,…
- Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking,…
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