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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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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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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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The one thing ... that is truly ugly is the climate of hate and intimidation, created by a noisy few, which makes the decent majority reluctant to air in public their views on anything controversial. ... Where all pretend to be thinking alike, it's likely that no one is thinking at all.
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It is true that some of my fiction was based on actual events. But the events took place after the fiction was written.
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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Pure science is a myth: Both mathematical theoreticians like Albert Einstein and practical crackpots like Henry Ford dealt with different aspects of the same world.
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A life without tragedy would not be worth living.
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It's a fool's life, a rogue's life, and a good life if you keep laughing all the way to the grave.
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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Reply to Plato: I seen horses I seen cows I haint never yet seen horsiness nor that there bovinity neither.
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There are no vacant lots in nature.
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Why the critics, like a flock of ducks, always move in perfect unison: Their authority with the public depends upon an appearance of unanimous agreement. One dissenting voice would shatter the whole fragile structure.
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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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Married couples who quarrel bitterly every day may really need each other as deeply as those who appear to be desperately in love.
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It is not an easy thing to inflate a dog.
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Good writing can be defined as having something to say and saying it well. When one has nothing to say, one should remain silent. Silence is always beautiful at such times.
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The tragic sense of life: our heroic acceptance of the suffering of others.
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Trout fishing. One must be a stickler for proper form. Use nothing but #4 blasting caps, or a hand grenade, if handy, or at a pool well-lined with stone, one blast from a .44 magnum will bring a few stunned brookies quietly to the surface.
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All governments require enemy governments.
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To be alive is to take risks to be always safe and secure is death.
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