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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
Atheist
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Indolence and melancholy: Each generates the other. If one can speak of such feeble passions as generating anything.
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Proust again: One can only wish that a man with such powers of total recall had led a less tedious life, moved among somewhat livelier circles.
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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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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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The desert wears... a veil of mystery. Motionless and silent it evokes in us an elusive hint of something unknown, unknowable, about to be revealed. Since the desert does not act it seems to be waiting -- but waiting for what?
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I know my own nation best. That's why I despise it the most. And know and love my own people, too, the swine. I'm a patriot. A dangerous man.
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There are some places so beautiful they can make a grown man break down and weep.
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When the situation is hopeless, there's nothing to worry about.
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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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By the age of forty, a man is responsible for his face. And his fate.
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The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
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The highest treason, the meanest treason, is to deny the holiness of this little blue planet on which we journey through the cold void of space.
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The ready availability of suicide, like sex and alcohol, is one of life's basic consolations.
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From the point of view of a tapeworm, man was created by God to serve the appetite of the tapeworm.
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My own best books have not been published. In fact, they've not even been written yet.
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In a nation of sheep, one brave man forms a majority.
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Passion, sexual passion, may lead to marriage, but cannot sustain marriage. The purpose of marriage is the raising of children, for which patience, not passion, is the necessary foundation.
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Grand opera is a form of musical entertainment for people who hate music.
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Appearance versus reality? Appearance is reality, God damn it!
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