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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

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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Peace
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Babylon

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It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it.
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The industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
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In the end, for all our differences and conflicts, most women and men share the same food, work, shelter, bed, life, joy, anguish, and fate. We need each other.
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The artist in our time has two chief responsibilities: (1) art and (2) sedition.
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I am happy to be a regional writer. My region is the American West, old Mexico, West Virginia, New York, Europe, Australia, the human heart, and the male groin.
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A man's duty? To be ready -- with rifle or rood -- to defend his home when the showdown comes.
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One single act of defiance against power, against the State that seems omnipotent but is not, transforms and transfigures the human personality. At least for a time. For a while. Perhaps that is enough.
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Civilization is a youth with a molotov cocktail in his hand. Culture is the Soviet tank or L.A. cop that guns him down.
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A society that feels itself too poor to afford the preservation of wilderness is not worthy of the name civilization.
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The earth, like the sun, like the air, belongs to everyone - and to no one.
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Proverbs save us the trouble of thinking. What we call folk wisdom is often no more than a kind of expedient stupidity.
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