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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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
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Edward Paul Abbey
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Most new books drop immediately into the oblivion they so richly deserve.
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Desert springtime, with flowers popping up all over the place, trees leafing out, streams gushing down from the mountains. Great time of year for hiking, camping, exploring, sleeping under the new moon and the old stars. At dawn and at evening we hear the coyotes howling with excitement—mating season.
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There has never been a day in my life when I was not in love.
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Though men now possess the power to dominate and exploit every corner of the natural world, nothing in that fact implies that they have the right or the need to do so.
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Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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Cold morning on Aztec Peak Fire Lookout. First, build fire in old stove. Second, start coffee. Then, heat up last night's pork chops and spinach for breakfast. Why not? And why the hell not?
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In the American Southwest, I began a lifelong love affair with a pile of rock.
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A good book is a kind of paper club, serving to rouse the slumbrous and to silence the obtuse.
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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
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It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.
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There is no force more potent in the modern world than stupidity fueled by greed.
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All governments need enemies. How else to justify their existence?
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It is not death or dying that is tragic, but rather to have existed without fully participating in life- that is the deepest personal tragedy.
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I once sat on the rim of a mesa above the Rio Grande for three days and nights, trying to have a vision. I got hungry and saw God in the form of a beef pie.
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The night I filled an inside straight: Even a blind hog's gonna root up an acorn once in a while.
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This world may be only illusion -- but it's the only illusion we've got.
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Despair leads to boredom, electronic games, computer hacking, poetry and other bad habits.
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The tank, the B-52, the fighter-bomber, the state-controlled police and military are the weapons of dictatorship. The rifle is the weapon of democracy. Not for nothing was the revolver called an equalizer.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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Our suicidal poets (Plath, Berryman, Lowell, Jarrell, et al.) spent too much of their lives inside rooms and classrooms when they should have been trudging up mountains, slogging through swamps, rowing down rivers. The indoor life is the next best thing to premature burial.
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