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

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
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
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Edward Paul Abbey
Atheist
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Earth

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Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only a hobby. Get out there and enjoy the world, your girlfriend, your boyfriend, husbands wives climb mountains, run rivers, get drunk, do whatever you want to do while you can, before it's too late.
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Love flowers best in openness and freedom.
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If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.
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Men have never loved one another much, for reasons we can readily understand: Man is not a lovable animal.
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When the situation is desperate, it is too late to be serious. Be playful.
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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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Tee Vee football: one team wins, one team loses -- they tie -- who cares? And why?
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The purpose and function of government is not to preside over change but to prevent change. By political methods when unavoidable, by violence when convenient.
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Put the park rangers to work. Lazy scheming loafers, they've wasted too many years selling tickets at toll booths and sitting behind desks filling out charts and tables
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Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.
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I would never betray a friend to serve a cause. Never reject a friend to help an institution. Great nations may fall in ruin before I would sell a friend to save them.
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Belief? What do I believe in? I believe in sun. In rock. In the dogma of the sun and the doctrine of the rock. I believe in blood, fire, woman, rivers, eagles, storm, drums, flutes, banjos, and broom-tailed horses.
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Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires.
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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 industrial corporation is the natural enemy of nature.
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