Today is the birthday of Edward Paul Abbey (January 29, 1927 – March 14, 1989), author and essayist."Society is like a stew. If you don't stir it up every once in a while then a layer of scum floats to the top."
— Edward Abbey
"There are some good things to be said about walking. Not many, but some. Walking takes longer, for example, than any other known form of locomotion except crawling. Thus it stretches time and prolongs life. Life is already too short to waste on speed. I have a friend who's always in a hurry; he never gets anywhere. Walking makes the world much bigger and thus more interesting. You have time to observe the details. The utopian technologists foresee a future for us in which distance is annihilated. . . . To be everywhere at once is to be nowhere forever, if you ask me."
— Edward Abbey
"May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds."
— Edward Abbey
"The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die at any time."
— Edward Abbey
"Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell."
— Edward Abbey
"Heaven is home. Utopia is here. Nirvana is now."
— Edward Abbey
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