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From the author of "Oxymoronica, Viva La Repartee," and "I Never Metaphor I Didn't Like" comes a fun compendium of time-honored wisdom beginning with the word if.

Mainly concerned with the emotions, their origins, their results in action, and their ethical implications.

Thoughts on nature, politics, love, and much more-from the environmentalist and author of such classics as Desert Solitaire and The Monkey Wrench Gang. Finished just two weeks before his death, A Voice Crying in the Wilderness is a collection of Edward Abbey's observations, both bitingly witty and inspirational, on a wide range of topics-from philosophy and writing to music, money, sex, and sports. Abbey chose each passage himself from his own journals...

Collects favorite aphorisms and bits of wisdom from Franklin's famous almanac.