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Quote by Edward Abbey
In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mo

In the afternoon I watch the clouds drift past the bald peak of Mount Tukuhnikivats. (Someone has to do it.) – Edward Abbey

Other quotes by Edward Abbey

What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and perfection of any ordinary everyday cloud floating over, say, Tuba City, Arizona, on a hot day in June? – Edward Abbey

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Arizona
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Edward Abbey
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I wish to be
an inspector of volcanoes.
I want to study cloud formations
and memorize the wind
and learn by heart the habits of
the ponderosa pine. – Edward Abbey

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Nature
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Edward Abbey
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Sky & Clouds
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I never saw a man who looked with such a wistful eye upon that little tent of blue which prisoners call the sky. – Oscar Wilde

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Sky & Clouds

To fly up to the sky and watch the earth is beautiful; to fly down to the earth and watch the sky is even more beautiful! – Mehmet Murat ildan

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Sky & Clouds

God is the Sun and when His rays fall upon your heart, not impeded by the clouds of egoism, the lotus blooms and the petals unfold. – Sathya Sai Baba

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Sky & Clouds

…And great cloud-continents of sunset-seas. – Thomas Bailey Aldrich, “Miracles”

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Sky & Clouds

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It would seem that Nature has prescribed to every one from the moment of his birth certain limits for virtue and vice. – François VI de la Rochefoucault (1613–1680)

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The movies we love and admire are to some extent a function of who we are when we see them. – Mary Schmich

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movies

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. – Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759

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When a man knows he is to be hanged in a fortnight, it concentrates his mind wonderfully. – Samuel Johnson

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Carpe Diem