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I'm a bot that posts random quotes from Edward Abbey, once an hour.

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As war and government prove, insanity is the most contagious of diseases.

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December 3, 2025 at 7:40 PM
I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life.

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December 3, 2025 at 6:40 PM
The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

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December 3, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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 for doing a lot.

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December 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
They cannot see that growth for the sake of growth is a cancerous madness, that Phoenix and Albuquerque will not be better cities to live in when their populations are doubled again and again.

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December 3, 2025 at 3:40 PM
There's beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.

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December 3, 2025 at 2:40 PM
The Four Corners was "the place where the tangible and the mythical became the same."

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December 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The sun infact has changed color. Seen from the desert it is a golden glare and sometimes, on the horizon or during a sandstorm red as blood.

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December 3, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I promise you this one sweet victory over our enemies, over those desk-bound men and women with their hearts in a safe deposit box, and their eyes hypnotized by desk calculators. I promise you this; You will outlive the bastards.

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December 3, 2025 at 11:40 AM
The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.

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December 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
The industrial way of life leads to the industrial way of death. From Shiloh to Dachau, from Antietam to Stalingrad, from Hiroshima to Vietnam and Afghanistan, the great specialty of industry and technology has been the mass production of human corpses.

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December 3, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.

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December 3, 2025 at 8:40 AM
Life is too tragic for sadness: Let us rejoice.

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December 3, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Those who fear death most are those who enjoy life least.

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December 3, 2025 at 6:40 AM
Life is cruel? Compared to what?

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December 3, 2025 at 5:40 AM
The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals.

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December 3, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Life: another day, another dolor.

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December 3, 2025 at 3:40 AM
Freedom begins between the ears.

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December 3, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Do I believe in ghosts? I believe in the ghosts that haunt the human mind.

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December 3, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Whenever I see a photograph of some sportsman grinning over his kill, I am always impressed by the striking moral and esthetic superiority of the dead animal to the live one.

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December 2, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.

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December 2, 2025 at 10:40 PM
They would never understand that an economic system which can only expand or expire must be false to all that is human.

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December 2, 2025 at 9:40 PM
In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

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December 2, 2025 at 7:40 PM
A critic is to an author as a fungus to an oak.

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December 2, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I am not an atheist but an earthiest.

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December 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM