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Quote by Edward Abbey
Say what you like about my bloody murderous government, I says, bu

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government, I says, but dont insult me poor bleedin country. – Edward Abbey

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Our modern industrial economy takes a mountain covered with trees, lakes, running streams and transforms it into a mountain of junk, garbage, slime pits, and debris. – Edward Abbey

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

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Sky & Clouds
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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. – Robert M. Hutchins, Great Books, 1954

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Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness. – Fred Woodworth, The Match!, No.79

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Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy. – Xenophon

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History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other? – Jon Meacham

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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian. – E. Stanley Jones

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You can only get really unpopular decisions through if the electorate is convinced of the value of the environment. Thats what natural history programmes should be for. – David Attenborough

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