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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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Edward Abbey
Age: 62 †
Born: 1927
Born: January 29
Died: 1989
Died: March 14
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Environmentalist
Essayist
Novelist
Philosopher
Screenwriter
Writer
Edward Paul Abbey
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The idea of wilderness needs no defense. It only needs more defenders. Remaining silent about the destruction of nature is an endorsement of that destruction.
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Anarchism is founded on the observation that since few men are wise enough to rule themselves, even fewer are wise enough to rule others.
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Lightning streaks like gunfire through the clouds, volleys of thunder shake the air.
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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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The earth is real. Only a fool, milking his cow, denies the cow's reality.
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Running the big rapids is like sex: half the fun lies in the anticipation. Two thirds of the thrill with the approach. The remainder is only ecstasy-or darkness.
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Of all bores, the worst is the sparkling bore.
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I believe that there is a kind of poetry, even a kind of truth, in simple fact.
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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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A good writer must have more than vin rosé in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.
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Only the half-mad are wholly alive.
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One thing more dangerous than getting between a grizzly sow and her cub is getting between a businessman and a dollar bill.
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The sexual revolution transformed the American West: Now even cowboys can get laid.
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A pretty girl can do no wrong.
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Every moment is precious. And precarious.
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Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does I suspect that the morose and fearful are doomed to quick extinction. Where there is no joy there can be no courage and without courage all other virtues are useless.
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One man alone can be pretty dumb sometimes, but for real bona fide stupidity, there ain't nothing can beat teamwork.
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But of the seven deadly sins, wrath is the healthiest - next only to lust.
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You can't study the darkness by flooding it with light.
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I have written much about many good places. But the best places of all, I have never mentioned.
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