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#1

“Silently, one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie

tags: inspiration, remembrance, starlight, stars

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#2

“My soul is full of longing
for the secret of the sea,
and the heart of the great ocean
sends a thrilling pulse through me.”
― Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

tags: sea

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#3

“Yours is the light by which my spirit's born: - you are my sun, my moon, and all my stars.”
― E.E. Cummings

tags: love, moon, stars, sun

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#4

“A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human?" Pointless, really..."Do the stars gaze back?" Now, that's a question.”
― Neil Gaiman, Stardust

tags: gaze, human, stars

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#5

“Let me never fall into the vulgar mistake of dreaming that I am persecuted whenever I am contradicted.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson in His Journals

tags: contradiction, correcting, correction, criticism, inspirational, opinions, paranoia

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#6

“Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.”
― Isaac Asimov, Roving Mind

tags: belief, bible, bitter, childish, childish-beliefs, guide, guides, home, ignorance, ignore, imagine, invade, leader, leaders, library, resentment, school, science, shame, the-bible, thought, uneducated, unimaginative, unthinking, writing

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#7

“Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: aristocracy, badly, democracy, government, uneducated

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#8

“Getting an education might be difficult, but it makes life easy. Being uneducated might be easy, but it makes life difficult.”
― Debasish Mridha

tags: education, uneducated

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#9

“Those who know the least want to be heard the most.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

tags: arrogance, arrogant, education, ignoramus, ignorance, ignorant, knowledge, knowledgeable, reading, uneducated

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#10

“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.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

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#11

“May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view.”
― Edward Abbey

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#12

“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. We need wilderness whether or not we ever set foot in it. We need a refuge even though we may never need to set foot in it. We need the possibility of escape as surely as we need hope; without it the life of the cities would drive all men into crime or drugs or psychoanalysis.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

tags: life, nature, philosophy

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#13

“Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.”
― Edward Abbey

tags: action, deeds, ruin, sentiment, soul

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#14

“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.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

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#15

“The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.”
― Edward Abbey

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#16

“I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.”
― Edward Abbey

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#17

“If people persist in trespassing upon the grizzlies' territory, we must accept the fact that the grizzlies, from time to time, will harvest a few trespassers.”
― Edward Abbey

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#18

“Water, water, water....There is no shortage of water in the desert but exactly the right amount , a perfect ratio of water to rock, water to sand, insuring that wide free open, generous spacing among plants and animals, homes and towns and cities, which makes the arid West so different from any other part of the nation. There is no lack of water here unless you try to establish a city where no city should be.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire: A Season in the Wilderness

tags: desert, nature, outdoors

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#19

“The idea of wilderness needs no defense, it only needs defenders.”
― Edward Abbey

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#20

“Wilderness. The word itself is music.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

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#21

“The ugliest thing in America is greed, the lust for power and domination, the lunatic ideology of perpetual Growth - with a capital G. 'Progress' in our nation has for too long been confused with 'Growth'; I see the two as different, almost incompatible, since progress means, or should mean, change for the better - toward social justice, a livable and open world, equal opportunity and affirmative action for all forms of life. And I mean all forms, not merely the human. The grizzly, the wolf, the rattlesnake, the condor, the coyote, the crocodile, whatever, each and every species has as much right to be here as we do.”
― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

tags: equality, greed, growth, progress, social-justice

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#22

“Where all think alike there is little danger of innovation.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

tags: creativity, individuality, innovation

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#23

“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.”
― Edward Abbey

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#24

“No more cars in national parks. Let the people walk. Or ride horses, bicycles, mules, wild pigs--anything--but keep the automobiles and the motorcycles and all their motorized relatives out. We have agreed not to drive our automobiles into cathedrals, concert halls, art museums, legislative assemblies, private bedrooms and the other sanctums of our culture; we should treat our national parks with the same deference, for they, too, are holy places. An increasingly pagan and hedonistic people (thank God!), we are learning finally that the forests and mountains and desert canyons are holier than our churches. Therefore let us behave accordingly.”
― Edward Abbey, Desert Solitaire

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#25

“When guns are outlawed, only the Government will have guns. The Government - and a few outlaws. If that happens, you can count me among the outlaws.”
― Edward Abbey, Postcards from Ed: Dispatches and Salvos from an American Iconoclast

tags: guns

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#26

“A venturesome minority will always be eager to set off on their own, and no obstacles should be placed in their path; let them take risks, for godsake, let them get lost, sunburnt, stranded, drowned, eaten by bears, buried alive under avalanches - that is the right and privilege of any free American.”
― Edward Abbey

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#27

“When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem.”
― Edward Abbey

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#28

“Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.”
― Edward Abbey

tags: love

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#29

“There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.”
― Edward Abbey, The Monkey Wrench Gang

tags: natural-beauty

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#30

“We are always getting away from the present moment. Our mental existence, which are immaterial and have no dimensions, are passing along the Time-Dimension with a uniform velocity from the cradle to the grave.”
― H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

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