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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.

Edward Abbey

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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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It's all still there in heart and soul. The walk, the hills, the sky, the solitary pain and pleasure-they will grow larger, sweeter, lovelier in the days and years to come.
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Nature is indifferent to our love, but never unfaithful.
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I now find the most marvelous things in the everyday, the ordinary, the common, the simple and tangible.
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