Edward Abbey

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• Abolition of a woman’s right to abortion, when and if she wants it, amounts to compulsory maternity: a form of rape by the State.

  One Life at a Time, Please (1988).

  • Abortion

• Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

  “The Second Rape of the West”, p. 183

  • Economics
  • Nature

• If my decomposing carcass helps nourish the roots of a Juniper tree or the wings of a vulture-that is immortality enough for me. And as much as anyone deserves.

  A Voice Crying in the Wilderness (Vox Clamantis in Deserto) (1990)

  • Life & Death

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• No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent.

  John Donne1572–1631No Man Is an Island (1624), Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions (1624), Meditation 17In context

• I came, I saw, I conquered.

  Julius Caesar100–44 BCInscription on the triumphal wagon reported in The Twelve Caesars by Suetonius, as translated by Robert Graves (1957).

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• The unexamined life is not worth living.

  Socrates470–399 BCThe Apology of Socrates (399 BC)

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