The absurd vanity of metaphysicians who like to imagine that they create the world by thinking about it.

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Ah yes, the head is full of books. The hard part is to force them down through the bloodstream and out through the fingers.

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A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

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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.

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Balance, that's the secret. Moderate extremism.

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I'm a humanist; I'd rather kill a man than a snake.

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I approach nature with a surly ill-will, daring Her to make trouble.

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I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.

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We're all undesirable elements from somebody's point of view.

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We are kindred all of us, killer and victim, predator and prey, me and the sly coyote, the soaring buzzard, the elegant gopher snake, and trembling cottontail, the foul worms that feed on our entrails; all of them, all of us. Long live diversity, long live the earth!

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The moral duty of the free writer is to begin his work at home: to be a critic of his own community, his own country, his own government, his own culture. The more freedom the writer possesses, the greater the moral obligation to play the role of critic.

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Our big social institutions do not reflect human nature; they distort it.

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Representative government has broken down. Our politicians represent not the people who vote for them but the commercial interests who finance their election campaigns. We have the best politicians that money can buy.

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Night and day the river flows. If time is the mind of space, the River is the soul of the desert. Brave boatmen come, they go, they die, the voyage flows on forever. We are all canyoneers.

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One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.

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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.

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I stand for what I stand on.

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In the modern technoindustrial culture, it is possible to proceed from infancy into senility without ever knowing manhood.

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Some Mushrooms at Newstead Abbey, Nottinghamshire. #mushrooms #newstead #abbey #nottingham