There is science, logic, reason; there is thought ... -Edward Abbey

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

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Edward Abbey was an American author and environmentalist known for his advocacy of wilderness conservation and his books, including "Desert Solitaire" and "The Monkey Wrench Gang." His writings captured the beauty of the American Southwest and critiqued the impact of industrialization on natural landscapes, inspiring the modern environmental movement.

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The tragedy of modern war is that the young men die fighting each other - instead of their real enemies back home in the capitals....
Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others....
When a man's best friend is his dog, that dog has a problem....
Power is always dangerous. Power attracts the worst and corrupts the best....
May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds....
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....
For myself I hold no preferences among flowers, so long as they are wild, free, spontaneous. Bricks to all greenhouses! Black thumb and cutworm to the...
Wilderness is not a luxury but a necessity of the human spirit....
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California....
Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing....

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Science is an enterprise that should be cherished as an activity of the free human mind. Because it transforms who we are, how we live, and it gives u...
It's actually the minority of religious people who rejects science or feel threatened by it or want to sort of undo or restrict the... where science c...
The center line of science literacy - which not many people tell you, but I feel this strongly, and I will go to my grave making this point - is how y...
The more science I studied, the more I saw that physics becomes metaphysics and numbers become imaginary numbers. The farther you go into science, the...
Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful....
The scientist is also a composer... You could think of science as discovering one particular thing - a supernova or whatever. You could also think of ...
I think people are realizing that engineering and science are extremely good degrees to get and you'll be very highly paid once you've got them....
If spiritual science is to do the same for spirit that natural science has done for nature, it must investigate quite differently from the latter. It ...
Any sufficiently badly-written science is indistinguishable from magic....
Many writers upon the science of political economy have declared that it is the duty of a nation first to encourage the creation of wealth; and second...