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Quotes from Down the River — Edward Abbey

1927–1989 United States

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Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.

Down the River (1982)

Love can defeat that nameless terror. Loving one another, we take the sting from death. Loving our mysterious blue planet, we resolve riddles and dissolve all enigmas in contingent bliss.

Down the River (1982)

I would give ten years off the beginning of my life to see, only once, Tyrannosaurus rex come rearing up from the elms of Central Park, a Morgan police horse screaming in its jaws. We can never have enough of nature.

Down the River (1982)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Edward Abbey (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.