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Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.

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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Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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I’m tired of doing what I don’t want to do to live the way I don’t want to live.
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That which today calls itself science gives us more and more information, and indigestible glut of information, and less and less understanding.
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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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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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