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I am not an atheist but an earthiest. Be true to the earth.

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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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Roosters: The cry of the male chicken is the most barbaric yawp in all of nature.
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Poetry -- even bad poetry -- may be our final hope.
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Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?
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Love implies anger. The man who is angered by nothing cares about nothing.
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If America could be, once again, a nation of self-reliant farmers, craftsmen, hunters, ranchers, and artists, then the rich would have little power to dominate others. Neither to serve nor to rule: That was the American dream.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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In writing, fidelity to fact leads eventually to the poetry of truth.
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We are slaves in the sense that we depend for our daily survival upon an expand-or-expire agro-industrial empire—a crackpot machine—that the specialists cannot comprehend and the managers cannot manage. Which is, furthermore, devouring world resources at an exponential rate. We are, most of us, dependent employees. …Edward Abbey (1927-1989)
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What did Jesus say to the headwaiter at the Last Supper? 'Separate checks, please.'
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Liberty cannot be guaranteed by law. Nor by any thing else except the resolution of free citizens to defend their liberties.
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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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It is always dishonest for a reviewer to review the author instead of the author's book.
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I've never yet read a review of one of my own books that I couldn't have written much better myself.
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The purpose of love, sex, and marriage is the production and raising of children. But look about you: Most people have no business having children. They are unqualified, either genetically or culturally or both, to reproduce such sorry specimens as themselves. Of all our privileges, the license to breed is the one most grossly abused.
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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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Why is it that the destruction of something created by humans is called vandalism, yet the destruction of something created by God is called development?
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The duty of a patriot is to protect his country from its government.
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All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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I don't see how poetry can ever be easy... Real poetry, the thick, dense, intense, complicated stuff that lives and endures, requires blood sweat blood and sweat are essential elements in poetry as well as behind it.
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