Quote by Edward Abbey
We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as d

We are preoccupied with time. If we could learn to love space as deeply as we are now obsessed with time, we might discover a new meaning in the phrase to live like men. – Edward Abbey

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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so. – Edward Abbey

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power
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Nobody seems more obsessed by diet than our anti-materialistic, otherworldly, New Age spiritual types. But if the material world is merely illusion, an honest guru should be as content with Budweiser and bratwurst as with raw carrot juice, tofu and seaweed slime. – Edward Abbey

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Beer
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding. – Edward Abbey

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Time
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Love is space and time measured by the heart. – Marcel Proust

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Time

The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time. – Jack London

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Time

We cannot see time directly; we catch glimpses only of its reflections. – Terri Guillemets

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Time

Never bear more than one kind of trouble at a time. Some people bear three kinds of trouble – the ones theyve had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have. – Edward Everett Hale

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Time

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In life, each of us must sometimes play the fool. – Yiddish Proverb

I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horses good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

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Thats a wonderful change thats taken place, and so most poetry today is published, if not directly by the person, certainly by the enterprise of the poet himself, working with his friends. – A. R. Ammons

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People would say you look weak if youre not cursing the opposition and driving around in a big black car while always wearing a tie. Above all, to be strong youre always supposed to be giving orders. – Georgios A. Papandreou

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