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Description: Edward Abbey quote: In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: To die alone, on rock under sun at the brink of the unknown, like a wolf, like a great bird, seems to me very good fortune indeed.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: My loyalties will not be bound by national borders, or confined in time by one nation's history, or limited in the spiritual dimension by one language and culture. I pledge my allegiance to the damned human race, and my everlasting love to the green hills of Earth, and my intimations of glory to the singing stars, to the very end of space and time.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: Somewhere in the depths of solitude, beyond wildness and freedom, lay the trap of madness.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a Juniper tree or the wings of a vulture-that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: All we have, it seems to me, is the beauty of art and nature and life, and the love which that beauty inspires.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage; and without courage all other virtues are useless.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: The earth is not a mechanism but an organism, a being with its own life and its own reasons, where the support and sustenance of the human animal is incidental. If man in his newfound power and vanity persists in the attempt to remake the planet in his own image, he will succeed only in destroying himself — not the planet. The earth will survive our most ingenious folly.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: Come on in. The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone — and to no one.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: Orthodoxy is a relaxation of the mind accompanied by a stiffening of the heart.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: Better a cruel truth than a comfortable delusion.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: A pessimist is simply an optimist in full possession of the facts.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: A great thirst is a great joy when quenched in time.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: The more corrupt a society, the more numerous its laws.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: An empty man is full of himself.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: The distrust of wit is the beginning of tyranny.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: 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 which destroys what little remains of the wild, the spare, the original, is cutting itself off from its origins and betraying the principle of civilization itself.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: I hold no preference among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: I am not an atheist but an earthiest.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may not ever need to go there.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism.

Description: Edward Abbey quote: Freedom begins between the ears.

Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: Blessed are those eyes that have seen more water than any man! Blessed be that haughty mind that aimed at the greatest hope!

Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: This is true happiness: to have no ambition and to work like a horse as if you had every ambition. To live far from men, not to need them and yet to love them. To take part in the Christmas festivities and, after eating and drinking well, to escape on your own far from all the snares, to have the stars above, the land to your left and the sea to your right: and to realise of a sudden that, in your heart, life has accomplished its final miracle: it has become a fairy-tale.

Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: Fools, art is a heavy task, more heavy than gold crowns; it's far more difficult to match firm words than armies, they're disciplined troops, unconquered, to be placed in rhythm, the mind's most mighty foe, and not disperse in air. I'd give, believe me, a whole land for one good song, for I know well that only words, that words alone, like the high mountains, have no fear of age or death.

Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: The highest point a man can obtain is not Knowledge, or Virtue, or Goodness, or Victory, but something even greater, more heroic and more despairing: Sacred Awe!

Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: Beauty is merciless. You do not look at it, it looks at you and does not forgive.

Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: Truly, everything in this world depended on time. Time ripened all. If you had time, you succeeded in working the human mud internally and turning it into spirit. Then you did not fear death. If you did not have time, you perished.

Description: Nikos Kazantzakis quote: While experiencing happiness, we have difficulty in being conscious of it. Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it do we suddenly realise - sometimes with astonishment - how happy we had been.