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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
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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What is the purpose of the giant sequoia tree? The purpose of the giant sequoia tree is to provide shade for the tiny titmouse.
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And if the computer gives you any back talk, pour some well-sugared office coffee into its evil little silicon brain.
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How can I be so evil? It ain't easy.
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It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.
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A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
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We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.
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We know so very little about this strange planet we live on, this haunted world where all answers lead only to more mystery.
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The best thing about graduating from the university was that I finally had time to sit on a log and read a good book.
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Page, Arizona, Shithead Capital of Coconino County: any town with thirteen churches and only four bars has got an incipient social problem. That town is looking for trouble.
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Hierarchical institutions are like giant bulldozers -- obedient to the whim of any fool who takes the controls.
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I thought of the wilderness we had left behind us, open to sea and sky, joyous in its plenitude and simplicity, perfect yet vulnerable, unaware of what is coming, defended by nothing, guarded by no one.
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A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.
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When a writer has done the best that he can do, he should then withdraw from the book-writing business and take up an honest trade like shoe repair, cattle stealing, or screwworm management.
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It may be true that there are no atheists in foxholes. But you don't find many Christians there, either. Or, about as many of one as the other.
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Critics are like ticks on a dog or tits on a motor: ornamental but dysfunctional.
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The response to my books from my East Coast friends has been wildly various, running the gamut from 'bad' to 'very bad.' (Is there another gamut?)
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I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.
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Come with me, the river said, close your eyes and quiet your limbs and float with me into the wonder and mystery of the canyons, see the unknown and the little known, look upon the stone gods face to face, see Medusa, drink my waters, hear my song, feel my power, come along and drift with me toward the distant, ultimate and legendary sea.
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I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.
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