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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
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Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
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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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Mexico: where life is cheap, death is rich, and the buzzards are never unhappy.
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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 developers and entrepreneurs must somehow be taught a new vocabulary of values.
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Counterpart to the knee-jerk liberal is the new knee-pad conservative, always groveling before the rich and the powerful.
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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The most common form of terrorism in the U.S.A. is that carried on by bulldozers and chainsaws. It is not enough to understand the natural world the point is to defend and preserve it. Sentiment without action is the ruin of the soul.
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Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.
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If wilderness is outlawed, only outlaws can save wilderness.
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The sneakiest form of literary subtlety, in a corrupt society, is to speak the plain truth. The critics will not understand you the public will not believe you your fellow writers will shake their heads. Laughter, praise, honors, money, and the love of beautiful girls will be your only reward.
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The New Age orgy: The flesh was willing but the spirit's weak.
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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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If it's knowledge and wisdom you want, then seek out the company of those who do real work for an honest purpose.
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There comes a time in the life of us all when we must lay aside our books or put down our tools and leave our place of work and walk forth on the road to meet the enemy face-to-face. Once and for all and at last
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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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There is beauty, heartbreaking beauty, everywhere.
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