Quote by Edward Abbey
What ideal, immutable Platonic cloud could equal the beauty and pe

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

Other quotes by Edward Abbey

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

Category:
Nature
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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

Category:
Beer
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Arizona
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My favorite color… the seam of a desert horizon. – Eileen Tabios

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Arizona

The desert tells a different story every time one ventures on it. – Robert Edison Fulton, Jr.

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Arizona

You know you live in Phoenix when you can drive four hours in any one direction and never leave the Valley. – Author unknown

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Arizona

Well, the trip from then on across Arizona and east of Los Angeles was just one Oasis after another. You can just throw anything out and it will grow there. I like Arizona. – Will Rogers

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Arizona

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